Frantova práva (1518) a jejich polský překlad (1532/1542) Marcina Bielského

• Authors: Peter Drews

Title variants

EN

Frantova práva (The Statutes of Franta - 1518) and their Polish translation (1532/1542) by Marcin Bielski

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The article compares two versions of a remarkable prose satire of early Czech Humanism recommending a life style contrary to all valid social norms and mainly based on German late medieval and to a lesser degree Italian Renaissance patterns: Frantova práva (The Statutes of Franta), edited by Jan Mantuán Fencl, and its Polish translation by Marcin Bielski, which until recently was regarded as lost. The Polish text renders the original almost literally, but aims more at an erudite public than the Czech original, thus following the German and Italian model. Moreover, it offers most of those concluding parts missing in the only preserved Czech edition and adds on four occasions some passages in a way which indicates that it cannot be excluded that the translator made use of an edition slightly different from the only known Czech specimen.

Keywords

CS

česká próza 16. století; Jan Mantuán Fencl; polská próza 16. století; Marcin Bielski

EN

Czech 16th century prose fiction; Jan Mantuán Fencl; Polish 16th century prose fiction; Marcin Bielski

• Publisher: Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Česká literatura (Czech Literature)
• Year: 2025
• Volume: 73
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 183-199
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Peter Drews

• Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, v. v. i., Na Florenci 1420/3, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic