Published: 2020-12-011

To the Picture of Holland in the 17th Century: The Description of the Hollands from the Silva by Andrzej Lubieniecki

Maria Barłowska
Prace Literaturoznawcze
Section: Interpretations
https://doi.org/10.31648/10.31648/pl.5650

Abstract

This paper presents an anonymous and unknown poem from the manuscript written by a Polish
Arian, Andrzej Lubieniecki (Remonstrants’ Library in Rotterdam, MS 527). It is the first truly comprehensive poetic description of the Netherlands. The composition of the poem is ruled by rhetoric
– the laudatory topic of a place and a person. The anonymous author’s opinion is confronted with
that expressed by Jakub Kazimierz Haur in his poem O holenderskich krainach z narodem (part
of Haur’s Mercurius… MS 191 Library of the University of Warsaw MS 191). The anonymous
description is written from the Arian point of view; its author admires the spirit of liberty and the
dynamism observed in Holland.

Keywords:

description of the nation, laudatory topic, Polish Arians, 17th-century manuscripts, rhetoric

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Barłowska, M. (2020). To the Picture of Holland in the 17th Century: The Description of the Hollands from the Silva by Andrzej Lubieniecki. Prace Literaturoznawcze, (8), 9–22. https://doi.org/10.31648/10.31648/pl.5650

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