Wacław Potocki

Waclaw Potocki (* 1621 in Wola Łużańska, † 1696 in Łużna ) was a Polish writer of the Baroque.

Potocki was born into a Unitarian aristocratic family and was educated at a Unitarian school in Raciborsko in Krakow. He led the life of a landed gentry, managed inherited from his father and took over goods sometimes public office, as cupbearer in Krakow. After the ban of Unitarianism ( " Arianism " ) in 1658, he converted to Catholicism, while his family members were Unitarians.

The extensive literary work Potocki includes romances, epic and lyric works, satires and epigrams. Besides Romances on biblical and ancient motifs such as Judyta, Wirginia, Syloret and Lidia and poetry collections as Pieśni and Periody particular are his system based on Jakub Sobieski Commentariorum belli libri tres Chotinensis epic Transakcyja wojny chocimskiej Władysław IV Vasa over the battle against the Turks in 1621 Chotyn and its late work Moralia (based on Erasmus of Rotterdam Adagia ) to call. His contemporaries were only a fraction of his works known, which appeared largely in the 19th and 20th centuries in print.

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• Author
• Literature ( Polish)
• Literature (17th century)
• Poetry
• Novel, epic
• Pole
• Born in 1621
• Died in 1696
• Man