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A Home Country Seen from a Distance: The Ode "O miłości ojczyzny" of John Baptist Albertrandi and its Context
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The ode "O miłości ojczyzny" by John Baptist Albetrandi is a translation of Jean Baptiste Louis Gresset’s "Sur l’amour de la patrie", published in Warsaw literary journal “Zabawy Przyjemne i Pożyteczne” in 1770. The text accompanied by explanatory notes was preceded by an introduction where a figure of Polish translator was presented, emphasizing genres used by him and leading threats of his literary work, and also the work was discussed. The attention was paid, among others, on the topicality of the subject during the tumultuous events of the Bar Confederation. Love radiant with nostalgia for native country in the time of confusion, anxiety, mutual hostility and prejudice was to realize what should unite the quarrelling society. In the section prior to the text of Albertrandi’s / Gresset’s ode, it was also showed that this and other works of French writers that Albertrandi translated in later years – during the threat of partition of the lands of the Poland – were deliberately chosen by him, and that through them he explained superior values to his countrymen, and he made allusions and evaluations of the difficult political situation. A similar tactic was used by him in his own philosophical and moral odes by undertaking universal subjects (time, hope, war), however, in terms strictly corresponding with the current political life of his country.
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221-234
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- Uniwersytet Łódzki
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Publication order reference
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