Poetyckie funeralia żegnające królową Elżbietę Habsburżankę – uwagi bibliograficzne i historycznoliterackie
Funerary Pieces in Memory of Queen Elizabeth of Austria – Bibliographical and Historical-Literary Comments

Author(s): Bartłomiej Czarski
Subject(s): Cultural history, 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, History of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Elizabeth of Austria; Sigismund II Augustus; funerary poetry; elegy; epicedium; epitaph
Summary/Abstract: The text discusses the publications in verse issued in connection with the funeral of Queen Elizabeth of Austria, the first wife of Sigismund II Augustus. These works are presented both from the bibliographic and historical-literary point of view. The article takes into account not only the preserved materials, but also those unknown today and considered lost, knowledge about which can currently only be derived from archival sources. The article offers a comparison of individual texts with each other on the one hand, and the assessment of the entirety of the works bidding farewell to Queen Elizabeth, published in the Jagiellonian and Habsburg states, on the other. They represent different genres and forms: from the epitaph, through the mourning elegy, to the epicedium. The collected funerary poems are a good illustration of the changes taking place in Polish culture and literature in the mid-16th century. They show the existence of various Renaissance traditions, as well as new elements heralding the growing popularity of mannerism.

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