Sebastian Klonowic

Sebastian Klonowic (born c. 1545, Sulmierzyce, Poland—died August 29, 1602, Lublin) was a Polish poet whose work in Latin and Polish is valuable chiefly as cultural history. A burgher, Klonowic settled first in Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine) and later in Lublin, where he became mayor and a municipal juror. In the Latin poem “Roxolania” (written 1584) he gave the first complete account of the Ruthenian geography, landscape, and people. In the Polish poem Flis (1595;...