The aim of this paper is, on the one hand, to show coherence within the thematic frame of Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, and on the other, to give consideration to fragments commonly considered minor and only complementary. Roncaccia based his work both on sixteenth-century studies of Ariosto and on contemporary research. Scholars who study Ariosto have always been challenged by the issue of the narrative and structural unity of Orlando Furioso. Both contradictory patterns can be reduced to images of a complex maze of events and a complete structure built with architectonical precision. The still current opposition between the two different manners of interpretation can be considered in relation to the two fragments of the chivalric narrative that intertwine in Orlando Furioso: the adventure genre related to the Breton Arthurian cycle and the epic genre that undertakes the subject of the Carolingian Wars. This tendency to duality-clear at the narrative plane-can be overcome at the macrotext level. Roncaccia shows how the four "movements" alternately play a role in the overall structure of the poem (as if in a symphony): two of them are characterised by the dispersion of motifs characteristic of romance, while the other two concentrate them, as if in an epic poem. By virtue of this original device, Ariosto combines the two genres, proportioning them depending on his compositional intentions.

In the paper, the author juxtaposes and compares Ovid's Remedia amoris and Nadobna Pasqualina by Samuel Twardowski in order to show how the genre convention of the Latin love elegy influenced the shaping of the Polish Baroque poem. The plane of comparison is formed by selected compositional and content elements, that is the compositional frame based on the epic convention, together with the definition of poetic aims and assumptions, and the topos of love as a disease, characteristic of the elegiac, along with a healing journey.

Terminus » 2017 » Tom 19, zeszyt 3 (44) » Rola map i planów w działaniach taktycznych wojsk polskich i litewskich do poczÄ tku panowania Stefana Batorego A A A

Terminus » 2018 » Tom 20, zeszyt 1 (46) » Reformacyjna poezja biblijna Laurentiusa Fabriciusa (1539–1577) z okresu pobytu w Królewcu (1561–1571) i jej znaczenie wyznaniowo-polityczne A A A

Terminus » 2018 » Special Issue (2018) » The Elegiac Qualities of Jan Kochanowski’s Amorous Foricoenia. Ovidian Models Part 2: Translations from Greek, Dives amator, Ovid and Catullus, Pholoe A A A

Terminus » 2017 » Tom 19, zeszyt 1 (42) » Charakterystyka prac kartograficznych Stanisława Pachołowieckiego (1580) A A A

The paper presents opinions coming from the 16 th and 17 th centuries pertaining to lay patrons and seniors of the Polish Reformed Church. Dedications attached to confessional publications emphasised the significant role of, among others, Krzysztof Dorohostajski, the Radziwi family of Birai, the Gorajski family, the Leszczyski family as protectors of their co-religionists, book sponsors, founders of Protestant churches, and patrons of institutionalized education. The loss of patrons was considered God's punishment. Documents reporting synodal meetings provided specific actions that should be undertaken by lay senior members of a community. A Protestant assembly in Kdainiai in 1630 presented the criteria of the selection of lay seniors and their scope of duties, which included: supervising the behaviours of their co-religionists, admonishing misbehaving gentlemen and ministers, regular participation in assemblies, etc. Documents from provincial synods of Unitas Lithuaniae featured both praises of its patrons' activities, particularly of Krzysztof Radziwi, and critique of financial support they offered to Protestant churches and ministers.

Terminus » 2017 » Tom 19, zeszyt 2 (43) » Rhetorics of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Orgelbüchlein. An Introduction with a Case Study of BWV 614 A A A

Terminus » 2017 » Tom 19, zeszyt 1 (42) » The Atlas of the Principality of Polotsk – an Introduction A A A

Th is paper presents an analysis of cartographic works made in connection with the siege and capture of the Polatsk fortress by the army of Stephen Bthory in 1579. Th e aim of the study is to recompare the content of cartographic sources concerning the siege of Polatsk with the preserved plans from the middle 16 th and early 17 th centuries.