Biskup i Muzy
Bishop and Muses

Portraits of Filip Padniewski in Neo-Latin Poetry

Author(s): Elwira Buszewicz
Subject(s): Cultural history, 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, History of Art
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Filip Padniewski; humanism; Neo-Latin poetry; panegyric poems; rhetorical commonplaces
Summary/Abstract: The main aim of the article is to analyse poetic representations of Filip Padniewski (1510–1572), who was the Bishop of Krakow during the reign of Sigismund Augustus. The author briefly discusses the biography of the hierarch, and then presents and analyses the Neo-Latin poems devoted to him during his lifetime or mourning his death. First, in the section „Musa epigrammatica”, she mentions the epigrams authored by: Petrus Royzius, Gregory of Sambor, Andreas Recepta-Gostyński, Ioannes Kochanowski, and Christophorus Kącki. The functions of these works vary: apart from some panegyrics, including stemmatic verses and funeral works, we also find among them a poem stylised as a friendly dialogue with the patron. Next, in the section „Musa elegiaca”, the author seeks to decypher the poetic image of the bishop contained in the elegiac poems of Ioannes Kochanowski and Gregory of Sambor. She analyses the conventions and style used by both poets and finds that Kochanowski’s approach is rather grandiloquent and elegant, whereas Samboritanus is more practical and less subtle.

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