Józef Bartłomiej Zimorowic

Józef Bartłomiej Zimorowic (born August 20, 1597, Lwów, Poland [now Lviv, Ukraine]—died October 14, 1677, Lwów) was a Polish-Latin Baroque writer, prolific author of satiric and erotic epigrams. When well-advanced in years, Zimorowic published a series of descriptions of Ukrainian peasant life, Sielanki nowe ruskie (1663; “New Ruthenian Idylls”), under the name of his more-gifted younger brother, Szymon (1608–29). As burgomaster of Lwów for many years, he witnessed the Cossack rebellion against Polish rule in...