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A Guide to the Heavens: The Literary Reception of Herman Hugo's Pia Desideria in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

A Guide to the Heavens: The Literary Reception of Herman Hugo's Pia Desideria in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Grześkowiak, Radoslaw

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ISBN10: 9004547371
ISBN13: 9789004547377
Publisher: Brill
Published: Nov 29 2023
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
This book is available in open access thanks to the generous support of the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań

This is the first monographic study of the reception of Herman Hugo's emblem book Pia desideria (1624) in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It discusses ten different translations and adaptations, showing how the engravings, elegies and exegetical extracts of the original edition were used by Polish-speaking authors. Attention is also given to the reception of the engravings in paintings. Furthermore, the author examines the reasons for the book's popularity, proving that it was determined by the interest of women who did not know Latin, yet constituted the most important target group for the numerous and varied Polish adaptations.

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