Stanisław Niegoszewski (1565–post-1600) was a prime example of a Renaissance man: he was a student at the universities of Krakow and Padua; a poet-improviser; an alchemist; a courtier of King Sigismund Vasa III; a diplomat; a devout follower of the Counter-Reformation; and a businessman. He divided his life between Poland and Italy, and his biography is known to us so fragmentarily that some scholars reconstruct his life based on instinct, assumptions, personal preference, or unfounded hypotheses. Henryk Barycz, the eminent scholar and author of entries in the Polish Biographical Dictionary, had divided the deeds and works of one Stanisław Niegoszewski into two different persons: “Stanisław Niegoszewski (Niegoszowski), coat of arms of Jastrzębiec (circa 1560–5 – circa 1588–90),” a student at the universities of Krakow and Padua and a poet-improviser, and “Stanisław Niegoszewski (Niegoszowski), coat of arms of Jastrzębiec (circa 1565–70 – after 1607),” an alchemist, courtier of King Sigismund Vasa III, diplomat, devout follower of the Counter- Reformation, and poet as well. Although Władysław Magnuszewski proved wrong Barycz’s theory about the existence of two Niegoszewskis nearly a half-century ago, the outdated theory is repeated by new generations of scholars again and again. This paper attempts to prove that all three sojourns in Padua of a certain Niegoszewski—as a student in 1582–1583, as an alchemist in 1585, and as a royal diplomat in 1594—belong to the same person. Based on new sources found in Italian archives and libraries in 2013, the biography of a single Stanisław Niegoszewski could be reconstructed with much more detail than before.
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Stanisław Niegoszewski (1565–post 1600), studente dell’Università di Cracovia e di quella di Padova, poeta-improvvisatore, alchimista, cortigiano di re Sigismondo III Vasa, diplomatico, fervente sostenitore della Controriforma ed uomo d’affari, fu uno dei primi esempi di uomo del Rinascimento. Egli trascorse la sua vita fra la Polonia e l’Italia. La sua biografia ci è nota in modo tanto frammentario che alcuni studiosi ricostruiscono la sua vita basandosi sull’istinto, presupposizioni, preferenze personali ed ipotesi infondate. Henryk Barycz, eminente ricercatore ed autore di varie voci del Dizionario Biografico Polacco, ha scisso le vicende e l’opera di Stanisław Niegoszewski in due persone differenti: ”Stanisław Niegoszewski (Niegoszowski), dello stemma di Jastrzębiec (1560–5 ca. – 1588–90 ca.)”, studente delle università di Cracovia e di Padova nonché poeta improvvisatore, e ”Stanisław Niegoszewski (Niegoszowski), dello stemma di Jastrzębiec (1565–70 ca. – post 1607)”, alchimista, cortigiano di re Sigismondo III Vasa, diplomatico, fervente sostenitore della Controriforma nonché poeta. Sebbene Władysław Magnuszewski abbia confutato la teoria di Barycz sull’esistenza di due Niegoszewski circa mezzo secolo fa, essa viene ribadita da sempre nuove generazioni di studiosi. In questo articolo mi sforzo di dimostrare che tutti e tre i soggiorni di Niegoszewski a Padova, come studente negli anni 1582–1583, come alchimista nel 1585 e in qualità di diplomatico reale nel 1594, riguardano la stessa persona. Sulla base delle nuove fonti da me rinvenute negli archivi e nelle biblioteche italiane nel 2013, la biografia di Stanisław Niegoszewski, lo stesso, è stata ricostruita con molti più dettagli di prima.
Artykuł poświęcony jest analizie dzieła historiograficznego i literackiego Mirona Costina, który był znaczącą postacią w życiu wojskowym, administracyjnym i politycznym Księstwa Mołdawii w środkowych dekadach XVII wieku. W szczególności zbadane zostały struktury narracyjne jego kronik, ich wkład w kształtowanie się narodu rumuńskiego. W twórczości Mirona Costina docierają do nas echa klasycyzmu greckiego i łacińskiego, nasycone motywami i objawieniami wybuchowego ducha epoki baroku.
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The volume is based on the analysis of the historiographic and literary work of Miron Costin, who held positions of primary importance in the military, administrative and political life of the Principality of Moldavia during the central decades of the seventeenth century. In particular, are examined the narrative structures of his chronicles, which often are inspired by the creations of contemporary and previous Polish historians. Furthermore, the contribution to the affirmation of the latinity of the Romanian people is clarified, when the question had not yet been put on the agenda. Moreover, the echoes of Greek and Latin classicism are identified in the verses of the poem La vita del mondo (The life of the world), steeped in motifs and modules of the overflowing spirit of the Baroque era.
Artykuł odsłania genezę i budowę tekstu Colantonia Carmignana. Przedstawia też ciekawą przedmowę, którą do książki napisał Luigi Marinelli. Proponowane wydanie zawiera także propozycje co do intertekstualnego wymiaru wiersza, zwracając uwagę na podobieństwa między pierwszym wersem utworu a elegią I 8 Joannesa Secundusa, przy czym oba teksty zostały pozbawione cech epitalamium.
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The article is a review to Andrea Colelli (ed.), C. Carmignano: Viaggio della Serenissima S. Bona Regina in Polonia, con nota introduttiva di Luigi Marinelli. Roma, 2018. In discussing the edition, proposals are put forward for what the intertextual dimension of the poem is concerned, drawing attention on the similarities between the first ‘capitulo’ of the poem and Joannes Secundus’ elegy I 8, both texts being denied epithalamia.
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