Szymon Szymonowic
Illustration — Szymon Szymonowic Szymon Szymonowic (in Latin, Simon Simonides; in Armenian, Շիմոն Շիմոնովիչ; also, in Polish, "Szymonowicz" and "Bendoński"; Lwów, 24 October 1558 – 5 May 1629, Czarnięcin, near Zamość) was a Polish Renaissance poet. He was known as "the Polish Pindar."
Szymon Szymonowic
SIELANKI POLSKIE Z RÓŻNYCH AUTORÓW ZEBRANE, A TERAZ ŚWIEŻO DLA POŻYTKU I ZABAWY CZYTELNIKÓW PRZEDRUKOWANE I POPRAWIONE. KOPERSZTYCHAMI OZDOBIONE, W WARSZAWIE pl:1778 ← z · Public domain
- Born
- 1558 · Lviv.
- Died
- 1629 · Czernięcin Główny.
- Nationality
- Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Occupation
- poet · writer
- Fields
- fiction
- Education
- Jagiellonian University
- Languages
- Latin · Polish
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Illustration — Szymon Szymonowic Szymon Szymonowic (in Latin, Simon Simonides; in Armenian, Շիմոն Շիմոնովիչ; also, in Polish, "Szymonowicz" and "Bendoński"; Lwów, 24 October 1558 – 5 May 1629, Czarnięcin, near Zamość) was a Polish Renaissance poet. He was known as "the Polish Pindar."
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• Illustration — Kościesza coat-of-arms Szymonowic studied in Poland (Lwów, Kraków), France and Belgium. From 1586 he was associated with Grand Hetman and Royal Chancellor Jan Zamoyski, with whom in 1593–1605 he organized the Zamojski Academy. In 1590 he was elevated to the nobility (szlachta), with Kościesza coat-of-arms. A humanist fluent in Greek and Latin, Szymonowic wrote in Polish Sielanki (Pastorals, 1614), a work influenced by the pastoral poems of Virgil and Theocritus. He also wrote plays in Latin, e.g., Castus Joseph (1587) and Pentesilea (1614). Szymonowic is considered the last great poet of the Polish Renaissance. He was acquainted with the Scottish Latinist Thomas Seget of Seton (1569 or 1570–1627).
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1558
Szymon Szymonowic born at Lviv.
1629
Szymon Szymonowic died at Czernięcin Główny.
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- 1.Simon Szymonowicz.
- 2.Otakar Odlozilik, "Thomas Seget: a Scottish Friend of Szymon Szymonowic," The Polish Review, vol. 11, no. 1, 1966.
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