De Philippo Callimacho elegiaco capitula duo

Abstract

It is two chapters detached from my doctoral thesis—published nearly fifty years ago—on Philip Buonaccorsi called Callimachus Experiens (1438–1496) as an imitator of Roman elegy writers. Callimachus was an Italian humanist and Neolatin poet who settled in Poland. In the first chapter, On Callimachus’ Love Lnguage, I analyse the semantics of some selected examples of his erotic vocabulary which was modelled upon ancient Roman elegies. In the second, On Fannia’s Effigy Sketched by Callimachus, I deal with his Polish mistress’ person. Not very much is told about her in Callimachus’ works. Nevertheless, I try to find out hypothetically—referring to the topics of the Roman elegy—if and how Fannia, a heroine of Callimachus’ poems, could be also a reader of them.