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

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

This is the first monographic study of the reception of Herman Hugo's emblematic 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 volu...

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Grześkowiak, Radosław,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, The Netherlands : : Brill,, [2024]
©2024
Year of Publication:2024
Edition:First edition.
Language:English
Series:Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences Series
Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Figures and Tables
  • Abstract
  • Keywords
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 A Bestseller out of the Blue
  • 1.2 Current State of Research on Pia desideria
  • 1.3 Polish Research on the Reception of Hugo's Collection
  • 1.4 Study Concept and Layout
  • 2 Pia desideria: The Anatomy of Success
  • 2.1 A Formula for a Bestselling Emblem Book with a Religious Theme
  • 2.2 The Popularity of Pia desideria in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
  • 3 Adaptations of Pia desideria Based on Its Engravings
  • 3.1 The Role of Devotional Engravings in Propagating Personal Piety
  • 3.2 Two Adaptations Dedicated to Princess Katarzyna Radziwiłł née Sobieska
  • 3.3 Subscriptions in Engravings of Prints
  • 3.4 Subscriptions in Loose Engravings
  • 3.5 The Artistic Reception of Engravings: A Reconnaissance
  • 3.6 Conclusions
  • 4 Translations of the Pia desideria Elegies
  • 4.1 Publicity for the Genre at Jesuit Schools
  • 4.2 Three Translations into Polish
  • 5 Translations and Adaptations of Exegetical Excerpts from Pia desideria
  • 5.1 The Demand for Translations of Treatises by the Doctors of the Church
  • 5.2 Carmelite Provenance of Polish Adaptations
  • 5.3 Translations of Excerpts
  • 5.4 Teofila Zadzikowa's Adaptation: Pragnienia Dusze pobożnej (Desires of a Pious Soul)
  • 6 Conclusions
  • 6.1 Literary Circulations: Oppositions and Interpenetrations
  • 6.2 Heterogeneity of Pia desideria in the Context of Its Different Reception Paths
  • 6.3 Projected Models of Reception
  • Primary Sources
  • Secondary Sources
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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