Abstrakt: | The review article presents the latest studies on Gallus Anonymous, conducted by
Prof. Tomasz Jasiński who, for over a decade, has been gaining evidence of Venetian
connections of the chronicler. Prof. Jasiński took an attempt to view the prose and poetry
written by Gallus as a sort of continuum since the ancient times. Gallus was — as proved
beyond any doubt by Jasiński — a very original writer who hardly ever adopted longer
sentences from other authors. Therefore, some new, original digital research methods had to
be designed and applied. The traditional study methods were used to verify all the results
obtained by means of computer techniques. Due to the great number of investigated works
(more than 19 thousand prose works on over 900 thousand pages, plus the great amount of poetry works), the results presented in the article would not be possible to obtain by means
of traditional methods, even with a numerous research team members involved. For a long
time, scholars have been considering Gallus a prose master. Jasiński’s studies proved that
author of Chronica Polonorum was also a great poet. Despite his extraordinary rigorous
writing manners, Gallus created his lines with a sense of rhythm, amazing fluency, lightness
and finery. He was also a master in using, among others, the sound figures of speech. |