Maria Cecylia Krasińska – wizytka warszawska
Maria Cecylia Krasińska – Warsaw Visitation Sister

Translating and publishing activity of the Warsaw convent of the Visitation Sisters in the second half of the 17th century

Author(s): Wojciech Jerzy Górczyk
Subject(s): Cultural history
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: women translators; literature; nuns; Baroque
Summary/Abstract: Cecylia Krasińska (ca. 1643–1693) entered the Order of the Visitation Sisters in 1663, taking the name Maria Cecylia. At the Warsaw convent, she got involved in the translating and publishing activity of the nuns, translating her order’s Coutumier from French. This work, with a preface written by Krasińska, was published in 1682. Thus, Maria Cecylia became one of the first Polish women translators and one of the first three Polish women – another one being her fellow sister Katarzyna Krystyna Branicka – whose work was published. Later, both these nuns – as Superior Sisters in Kraków – initiated the publishing activity of that convent.

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