Dzieła upowszechnione pod nazwiskiem Duretiusa w krakowskiej edycji
Works Disseminated under the Name of Duretius in Cracow Edition

Summary/Abstract: A collection of poems entitled “Litaniae Lauretanae anagrammatice contextae. Corona quoque V. Beatissimae, ex S. Scripturae elogiis versu composita” gives an insight into the artistic work reality and into many aspects of the baroque poetic workshop. Quintinus Duretius (Quentin DuRetz), to whom the collection is attributed, is indeed not its author. The poems are the effects of exercises in writing done by his apprentices, and were published in Antwerp in the year 1651. The false information about the collection’s authorship became also fixed due to the Poles. A Benedictine monk Stanisław Szczygielski claims in his writings that it was Duretius who authored the texts which were reedited in Cracow. From a rich collection of poetry contained in “Rhetorum Collegii S. Adriani oppidi Gerardimontani in Flandria »Poesis anagrammatica«” the Polish editor selected only such pieces which relate to Virgin Mary. Out of four separate parts of the first edition issued by the widow and Franciszek Cezary’s inheritors’ publishing house three were printed. They evidence a peculiar kind of creativity of young poets from Benedictine college which mingled a prayer structure with artistic texts. In the analysed pieces one discerns elements typical of baroque, so in a literary layer a strong affinity to anagrams and artistic expositions, while in the sphere of religion–cultivation of Marian laudatory piety, especially panegirycal antonomasia.

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