Published : 2025-07-07

„Opus honestum, utile, delectabile”. Prawdziwe zwierciadło niewinności [True Mirror of Innocence] in Relation to Gábor Hevenesi’s Speculum Innocentiae [Mirror of Innocence] (Preliminaries)

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This article presents a comparative analysis of two works at the intersection of hagiography and emblem literature: Speculum innocentiae sive vita angelica B. Aloysii Gonzagae Soc. Iesu [...] (Mirror of innocence, or the angelic life of Blessed Aloysius Gonzaga of the Society of Jesus; Munich 1699), by the Hungarian Jesuit Gábor Hevenesi (1656-1715), and Prawdziwe zwierciadło niewinności to jest życie czyste, niewinne, anielskie błogosławionego Alojzego Gonzagi [...] (True mirror of innocence, that is, the pure, innocent, angelic life of Blessed Aloysius Gonzaga; Poznań 1725), by the Polish Jesuit Karol Piotr Sawicki (1661-1733). Contrary to earlier scholarly assumptions, Sawicki’s work is not a typical translation of Hevenesi’s book but a liberal and creative adaptation that gives the text the marks of originality. The adaptive procedures employed by the Polish Jesuit resemble, to some extent, a frequently used early modern translation strategy described as a form of „domestication” of the source text. Sawicki’s work also merits attention as an intriguing example of late Baroque emblematic religious literature and as a testament to the much broader, albeit now little-known, phenomenon of the Polish reception of Gábor Hevenesi’s Neo-Latin writings.

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Sawicki Karol Piotr, Hevenesi Gábor, Aloysius Gonzaga, emblem books, heraldic poems, hagiography, religious literature, neolatin literature, translations, Polish literatury – XVIII century



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Roczniki Humanistyczne · ISSN 0035-7707 | eISSN 2544-5200 | DOI: 10.18290/rh
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