KOCHANOWSKI Jan - PSAŁTERZ DAWIDÓW Reprint of the 1st edition

KOCHANOWSKI Jan - PSAŁTERZ DAWIDÓW

Reprint of the first edition. Pax, Warsaw 1985.Dimension.26x17,5cm.Hardcover publisher in cardboard case(a few soiling of case).

"Psalter of the Davids" is based on the Latin version of the Bible called "Vulgate" (translation of the Bible into Latin made by St. Jerome at the turn of the 4th/Vth century from Hebrew and Greek).

It is a collection of religious, patriotic, personal and philosophical poems, based on an innovative model of lyric poetry. The author's religiosity is characteristic of Renaissance humanism; it is trans-denominational, embracing God in terms common to various religious systems. In terms of versification, this is the most diverse work of Jan Kochanowski. The music for the "Psalter of the Davids" was written by the most outstanding Polish composer of the period, Mikolaj Gomolka, in 1580.

"(...) Kochanowski, in his translation, created a religious lyric of unprecedented richness both in the human feelings and thoughts depicted and in the ways of expressing them, and therefore in the content of the form."(...)