Pochwała Kochanowskich - raz jeszcze

Abstract

The subject of analysis constitutes the so far unknown work containing the appraisal of Jan, Andrzej and Piotr Kochanowski, recorded in the manuscript of the Ossoliński National Institute 647 I on k. 167 v. The anonymous letter was found in the manuscript connected with the surrounding of Arian in the form of the fragment Z Listu do Jego Mości Pana Dominika Kazanowskiego, co go Kochanowska urodziła, o Kochanowskich. As the appraisal of the ancestors on their mother’s side, it constitutes a thematic whole. It may have been created because of Kochanowski’s wedding in 1636. His laudation makes use of the already known subject-matter (S.F. Klonowic, K. Miaskowski) and introduces references to the poetry from Czarnolas but, above all, underlines a creative inclusion of the poet into the heritage of the European tradition. Andrzej Kochanowski as a translator of The Aeneid allusively referred to and Piotr Kochanowski as a translator of Tasso, a poetic work on heroic Gofred were treated as continuators of the achievements by Jan from Czarnolas. A poetic letter, recorded in the group of works ascribed by Hieronim Juszyński to Hieronim Moskrzowski, allows for asking the question on the rightness of this attribution.