«Poesis Artificiosa»

Agnieszka Borysowska is Librarian in the Department of Manuscripts and Rare Books of Książnica Pomorska and Senior Lecturer at the University of Szczecin (Poland). Barbara Milewska-Waźbińska is Professor at the Institute of Classical Studies at the University of Warsaw (Poland). Her main fields of interest are Neo-Latin literature and the classical tradition in literature and art. She has published four books on Neo-Latin poetry and old Polish culture and numerous articles in Polish, English, Italian, and German.

• Contents: Rafał Wójcik: Early Fifteenth Century Acrostics in the Cistercian Codex from Rudy – Angelika Modlińska-Piekarz: Some Example of Metrical Virtuosity: Poetic Psalm Paraphrase of Caspar Cunradus – Jarosław Nowaszczuk: The Judas the Traitor Epigrammatic Cycle: Introduction into Jacob Masen’s Theory of the Argutia Sources – Anna Kapuścińska/Piotr Urbański: Poesis Artificiosa ad Gloriam Dei: Paul Zacharias and His Disticha Sacra – Magdalena Górska: Emblematics towards Visual Poetry: The Example of the Via triumphalis Polonorum et Svecorum Regem ... Vladislaum IV ... celebrata ... ducens ... (1634) – Agnieszka Borysowska: Pomeranian Poets about their Dead Rulers: Elaborate Forms in Seventeenth Century Funeral Poetry – Elwira Buszewicz: The Dead Persons, Lapidary Letters, Immortal Memory: Atoms of the Poesis Artificiosa in the Church of St. Casimir the Prince, Kraków – Bartłomiej Czarski/Barbara Milewska-Waźbińska: Pattern Heraldic Forms in Old Polish Literature: Inspirations, Realizations, Functions – Magdalena Piskała: Chronograms in the Poetry of Maurycy Kiełkowski and Other Poets of the Saxon Period in Poland – Jakub Niedźwiedź: The Theory of Poesis Artificiosa in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (1660–1760) – Maciej Pieczyński: Ars Combinatoria as a Poetics On the Presence of Combinatorial Structures in the Late-Baroque Artificial Poetry – Piotr Rypson: Around the Proteus Poem.