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Przekład eklogi pierwszej, O szlachetnej miłości i szczęśliwym jej zakończeniu (De honesto amore et felici eius exitu), ze zbioru Adolescentia Baptysty Mantuana

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Górka E.

Terminus

2021

vol. 23

issue 1 (58)

81-95

The article presents a translation of the first eclogue from the 15th-century collection of bucolics Adolescentia by Battista the Mantuan (1447–1516). The eclogue, entitled De honesto amore et felici eius exitu, is supplemented by an introduction and commentary. To this day, two critical editions of the work have been published: by Wilfred Mustard (1911) in English, and by Andrea Severi (2010) in Italian. The introduction presents the author’s biography and gives a brief description of the whole collection, in particular the eclogue under discussion. The Italian poet Battista the Mantuan was a Carmelite and became Blessed of the Catholic Church. A prolific writer, he is best known for his Adolescentia, a collection of bucolics created at a young age, edited and expanded later. Published originally in 1498, Adolescentia quickly gained popularity among readers and were established as school reading. Other issues discussed in the introduction include the sources of Mantuan’s inspiration, the role of the collection in education and in the Reformation, as well as the reception of Adolescentia. It is also pointed out that the first eclogue should be seen in a wider context of Renaissance eclogues exploring the theme of marriage. The interpretation of the eclogue offered in the article draws on its biblical and ancient sources, i.e. the Book of Ruth and Virgil’s eclogues, respectively, as well as the conventions of the genre, especially of elegy, that affected its form.

Miasto w bukolice. Na przykładzie eklogi szóstej ze zbioru Adolescentia Baptysty Mantuana

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Górka E.

Academic Journal of Modern Philology

2021

issue 11

115-126

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the image of the city in the sixth eclogue from Adolescentia, a collection of eclogues by the Renaissance poet Baptista Mantuanus. This image is set in the context of the earlier bucolic tradition and the traditions of other genres. The violent depreciation of urban space in Mantunan’s idyll could be interpreted as a manifestation of the famous bucolic city-countryside opposition. Thus, the first part of the article focuses on bucolic poetry created before Mantuan: ancient, medieval and Renaissance idyll. The analysis shows no explicit rejection of urban space in the aforementioned texts, so Mantuan’s depiction of the city cannot be understood as a result of the natural development of the bucolic genre in the Renaissance. The second part of the article focuses on searching for extra-bucolic sources that inspired the Italian poet to include the invective against the city in the idyll. The relationship of the sixth eclogue to the rhetorical and satirical traditions is analysed. Satire three from the collection by the Roman satirist Juvenalis is recognized as the direct source of the attack on the city. The way in which the Italian poet received this satire may have been mediated by the medieval tradition.

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Przekład eklogi pierwszej, O szlachetnej miłości i szczęśliwym jej zakończeniu (De honesto amore et felici eius exitu), ze zbioru Adolescentia Baptysty Mantuana

Miasto w bukolice. Na przykładzie eklogi szóstej ze zbioru Adolescentia Baptysty Mantuana