Podróż do nowej Arkadii. Wizja Włoch w elegiach Klemensa Janicjusza

• Authors: Roman Krzywy

Title variants

EN

The Journey to the New Arcadia. The Picture of Italy in the Elegies by Klemens Janicjusz

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The author presents ways in which Klemens Janicjusz (Clemens Ianicius, 1516–1543), certainly the most significant neo-Latin poet of early Renaissance in Poland, constructs the image of Italy in his autobiographical cycles of elegies (Tristium liber unus, Variorum elegiarum liber unus). Janicjusz, born in the peasant family, could have studied at the University in Padua thanks to a scholarship funded by his patrons. He gave to Italy a status of an exceptional place that combines features typical of Arcadia (a mild climate, a humanfriendly nature, the unique customs of inhabitants) with the atmosphere favourable to scientists and artists (the place where Muses moved from Greece). The poet had to leave Padua because of his illness, which meant to him a kind of exile from the ideal land and made him aware that his dreams about artistic fame and completing his humanity would never realise.

Keywords

EN

New Arcadia; Klemens Janicjusz; neo-Latin poet; Renaissance; elegies

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Terminus
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 24
• Pages: 87-100

Dates

online

2012-05-20

Contributors

author

Roman Krzywy

• Instytut Literatury Polskiej Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

Identifiers

DOI

10.4467/20843844TE.11.005.0035