Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk

(Strategies for creating the image of a humanist in the “Hodoeporicorum liber unus" (“The Book of Traveling Elegies") by Jan Rybiński)

Year of publication: 2019
Page range: 9 (5-14)
Keywords: humanism, Jan Rybiński, elegy, self-image, mythology
Author: Robert Mileszczyk (Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin)


Abstract

“The Book of Traveling Elegies" by Jan Rybiński is not just a description of the author's journey especially to foreign universities, in order to gain extensive humanistic knowledge, but, and this is probably the most interesting, is also a kind of "visiting card" for the Renaissance intellectual member of the respublica litterarum community. The article presents the methods that Rybiński used to present his person in a subtle and clear way to a new, but also demanding environment of intellectuals gathered in Toruń. The article presents both the pragmatic aspect of this self-presentation, related to the work undertaken by the poet, as well as the purely artistic one, addressed directly to local Toruń humanists.

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