A PERIOD OF TRANSITION: BAROQUE HUMOR IN THE "FRASZKI" OF DANIEL NABOROWSKI

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Daniel Naborowski, who lived from 1573 to 1640, belonged to one of the first generations of Polish poets to feel the complete weight of Jan Kochanow ski's influence. At the same time, the years of his maturity belonged to an age in which Poland had already entered a political decline. This development was reflected in an increasingly disharmonious poetic style which is known loosely in the history of Polish literature as the period of the Baroque. Like Kochanow ski before him, Naborowski was the product of a liberal European education: he studied philology, medicine and law in such cities as Strasbourg, Heidel berg, Paris, and London, to name just a few, and for a short while, he was a student of Galileo in Padua. In Latin he published two articles on medicine in 1593 and 1594, and his first poetic work appears to have been an ode in Latin written for the benefit of an early benefactor, Rafal Leszczynski. Throughout his adult life, however, Naborowski was employed in the service of the

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