Poezja desertowa obiadów czwartkowych — mit czy rzeczywistość?

Abstrakt

Thursday Dinners’ Dessert Poetry — Myth or Reality? Thursday dinners held by Stanisław August is today the most recognizable Polish salon of the second half of the 18th century and Stanislaw August Poniatowski’s Warsaw. Thursday dinners combined the idea of a literary and scientific meeting (about reformation aspirations) with “rational,” sometimes much more frivolous activities. The latter is associated with the problem of so-called dessert literature, texts which, at the King’s command, were printed in a small circulation, about 20 copies, in the Court Printing House of His Majesty and Franciszek Bohomolec’s Rzeczpospolita.Theprintswereput,asitissuspectedbyresearchers,underporcelain with desserts. They were intended only for the inner, closed circle. If one assumes that dessert prints were a regular element of the dinners, and these were held fairly regularly for twenty years, then there must have been about 19,000 of them... Andevenif these printsappearedunderthesaucersonlyonceamonth,thereshould still be about 5000 of them. Meanwhile, today we have a trouble identifying these “Thursday”playful prints.Theyhavenotsurvivedorareweunabletorecognizethem? The matter is hindered by the loss of a large part of the Stanisław August Archive containing, among others, literary texts related to Thursday dinners. It is known that the collection of such “desserts,” playful, and obscene prints, was owned by an ethnographer and folklorist Ludwik Adam Jucewicz (1813–1846), as mentioned in one of his works Ancient Monuments in Lithuania... (1846), which was a collection whichheprobably inheritedfromDominikJucewicz. FromLudwik AdamJucewicz’s information, quotes in Ancient Monuments in Lithuania... it follows that Dominik, whom historians today do notmention, had close contacts with theintellectual milieu of Stanislaw August Poniatowski’s Warsaw. Who was Dominik Jucewicz, a friend of Karol Wyrwicz or Jan Bohomolec. How did he come into possession of a set of “Thursday” printed obscenities? And do we have a chance to find this collection.