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The specific censorship determines only apparently the true end of the Polish Enlightenment, which was revealed very clearly especially in the areas of Galicia. The Vienna government aspired by all means to transform ‘hereditary countries’ together into a whole. Therefore, literature often started to use historical costume. The tragedy entitled ‘Arnaldo de Rocas: or, getting Nicosia. The tragedy in five acts, a poem originally written in Polish in 1828 by Leszek Borkowski’ is the outcome of those practices, remaining almost two hundred years in the manuscript. This unknown play, referring to its idea of ‘The Grecian Envoys’, is a perfect example of long-lasting classical aesthetics, which thanks to setting the action in the historically distant times, smuggles current patriotic content in a veiled way.