JAN ZE STOBNICY, RUDOLF Z WASSERBURGA I PIEŚŃ SAFICKA DO BISKUPA JANA LUBRAŃSKIEGO.

The article offers an overview of the poetical material circulating in a Latin poem by Rudolph of Wasserburg which was inserted into an astronomical and geographical treatise Introductio in Ptolemaei Cosmographiam cum longitudinibus et latitudinibus regionum et civitatum celebriorum (Cracoviae 1512, 1517) of Jan of Stobnica (1470-1530). As a Sapphic verse, Rudolph's poem offers tales of the achievements of Jan Lubrański, the Bishop of Poznań, which were praised and admired in order to meet the tastes and cultural expectations of contemporary readers, thus becoming a testimony to the bishop's outstanding personality. Among others, the article examines his actions and deeds eulogised in the poem, such as building churches and patronage of the arts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]