Macieja Stryjkowskiego Napis na grobie… Grehora Chodkiewica i jego wzór. Edycja tekstów i bilans powiązań

Abstract

The article consists of a short introduction and editing of two editions of the forgotten vernacular epitaphs written in the early 1570s. They were created by Cyprian Bazylik, a composer, writer and printer, and Maciej Stryjkowski, a future historian of Sarmatia. Both were associated with the literary circles of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, however the epitaph by Bazylik honors Paweł Secygniowski from Małopolska, while Stryjkowski’s poem commemorates Grzegorz Chodkiewicz, Vilnius castellan and Grand Lithuanian Hetman. The comparison of both works brings out not only the features of Stryjkowski’s poetic technique, but also reveals his literary patterns and demonstrates imitative practices. Moreover, both works document the circulation of texts in Kochanowski’s times, to whose poetry neither Bazylik nor Stryjkowski refer.