Collection: Ignacy Krasicki
Ignacy Błażej Franciszek Krasicki of the Rogala coat of arms (born February 3, 1735 in Dubiecko, died March 14, 1801 in Berlin) – Bishop of Warmia from 1767, Archbishop of Gniezno from 1795, Duke of Samland, Count of the Holy Roman Empire, President of the Main Crown Tribunal in Lublin in 1765, parish priest of Przemyśl, custodian of the Lviv cathedral chapter in 1765, poet, prose writer, publicist and encyclopedist, Knight of Malta honored with the Devotionis Cross, appointed titular bishop of Verinopolis in 1766.
He is the author of a work considered to be the first Polish novel ( Mikołaj Doświadczyński's Cases ). He created mainly fables, satires and heroicomic poems ( Monachomachia ). He did not only write fiction. He wrote works in the field of homiletics, theology, heraldry. He published a two-volume encyclopedia, wrote Letters about gardens , articles for Monitor and its own newspaper Every Week . He undertook translation work from Plutarch, translated The Songs of Ossian , fragments The Divine Comedy Dante, works by Anacreon, Boileau, Hesiod, Theocritus; he wrote a treatise On the translation of books .
