Barokowa erudycja Stefana Jaworskiego w panegiryku "Arctos et antarctos"

The article discusses a panegyric dedicated to the Orthodox Metropolitan of Kiev Varlaam Yasinsky by Stefan Jaworski, a preacher and poet who lived at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries. Consisting of both rhymed and prose elements, the Latin-Polish poem Arctos et antarctos caeli Rossiaci in gentilibus syderibus [...] Barlaami Jasinski develops the symbolism of celestial bodies, referring through it to the coat-of-arms imagery characterizing individual Ukrainian noble families; and he assigns a special role to the Polar Star (Arctos) identified with the Virgin Mary – the mother of the Savior is, according to the poet' s desires, supposed to guard, among other things, the prosperity of the Kiev college, at the head of which stands the noble addressee of the work. The author of the dissertation is interested both in Jaworski' s Baroque conceptual imagination and his erudition, rooted in reading the classics.