Data di Pubblicazione:
2015
Citazione:
La leggenda di Wanda nell'elegia I, 15 di Jan Kochanowski / F. Cabras. - In: STUDI SLAVISTICI. - ISSN 1824-7601. - 12:(2015), pp. 59-77. [10.13128/Studi_Slavis-17969]
Abstract:
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the connections between Jan Kochanowski’s elegy i
15, about the legend of Wanda, and seventeenth-century historiographic texts about the same figure,
the legendary warrior-queen of the Poles. It is evident that the only influence that such historiography
had on Kochanowski regards the plot of the story. The poet indeed portrays Wanda as he would
any elegiac puella or classical war heroine (e.g. Camilla), constantly imitating elegiac and epic poets
(Propertius, Ovid, Vergil...). Having demonstrated this fact, the article explains why Kochanowski
decided to write an epyllion on an episode of ‘national’ Polish history concerning an important,
although legendary, character and why he wrote it in elegiac couplets. Attention will also be paid to
the consequences of this choice, i.e. the effects we have when two different styles – the elegiac and
the epic one – are combined in a single text.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
Kochanowski; Wanda; Elegiarum Libri Quattuor
Elenco autori:
F. Cabras
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