Uwagi na marginesie edycji bazyliańskiego poematu O zabiciu Młodzianków

Abstract

This paper is intended to gather some remarks regarding a first published late-Baroque poem The Massacre of the Innocents, being an anonymous Polish translation of Giambattista Marino’ s work. After giving a sketchy characterization of the poem and displaying the main reasons of its publication, the author proceeds to conclusions drawn from the simultaneous reading of three existing versions of the Polish text survived in one of the Ossolineum manuscripts. He dwells on the paths the translator takes arduously forming and transforming his version of the Italian poem, pointing out the main types of corrections he makes and trying to present a reasonable explanation for his artistic choices. The paper intends though to shape a more profound picture of the work taking into account not only the final (or the one considered to be such) form of the text but also all the traces of the translator’ s continuous labour conserved in the extant versions of the Polish poem.