A Guide to the Heavens

The Literary Reception of Herman Hugo's Pia Desideria in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-54737-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 146 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 259 g

Reihe: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Early Modern Cultures of the Younger Europe

This book is available in Open Access thanks to the generous support of the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan

This is the first monographic study of the reception of Herman Hugo's emblematic book "Pia desideria" (1624) in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It discusses ten different translations and adaptations, showing how the engravings, elegies and exegetical extracts of the original volume were used by Polish-speaking authors (a little space is also devoted to the painting reception of the engravings). The author examines too the reasons for the phenomenon of the volume's popularity, proving that it was determined by the interest of women who did not know Latin, who constituted the most important target group for these numerous and varied Polish adaptations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

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Grzeskowiak, Radoslaw

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Slawische Literaturen Westslawische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Übersetzungswissenschaft, Translatologie, Dolmetschen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures and Tables

Abstract

Keywords

1 Introduction

2 Pia desideria: the Anatomy of Success

3 Adaptations of Pia desideria Based on Its Engravings

4 Translations of the Pia desideria Elegies

5 Translations and Adaptations of Exegetical Excerpts from Pia desideria

6 Conclusions

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Radoslaw Grzeskowiak (1968), Titular Professor, University of Gdansk, Institute of Polish Philology, literary historian (author of three books) and academic publisher (author or co-author of seventeen editions) specialising in the study of Polish Renaissance and Baroque poetry.