Fables and Parables
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Fables and Parables, by Ignacy Krasicki, is a work in a long international tradition of fable-writing that reaches back to antiquity.
"The Blind Man and the Lame", from de Bry's Emblemata saecularia, 1596
Lamb and wolf, illus. by Bransom, ca. 1921
Ignacy Krasicki
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Ignacy Błażej Franciszek Krasicki, from 1766 Prince-Bishop of Warmia and from 1795 Archbishop of Gniezno, was Poland's leading Enlightenment poet, a critic of the clergy, Poland's La Fontaine, author
Fables and Parables
…Fables and Parables (Bajki i przypowieści, 1779), by Ignacy Krasicki (1735–1801), is a work in a long international tradition of fable-writing that reaches back to antiquity. Krasicki's fables and parables have been…
Castle of the bishops of Warmia at Lidzbark Warmiński
Summer palace of the bishops of Warmia at Smolajny
Portrait of Krasicki by Per Krafft the Elder, c. 1767
Letter by Ignacy Krasicki