Wokół „rzymskiej sprawy” Zygmunta Krasińskiego na podstawie niepublikowanych listów (1848–1852)

Abstract

Rome seems to be an especially priviledged place on emotional, scenic and historical map of Zygmunt Krasiński’s predilections. Within the space of the Eternal City Irydion’s author experienced one of its kind fusion of past and presence, past times and poet’s contemporary time. The eventful 1848 year rife with events of political and social nature, in prospect of changes within Rome, transforms the Italian civitas in axis mundi, caput mundi. The reasoned hope of Polish people for the widely understood transformation, which in consequence could lead to the fall of world powers, has the realisation in the immense activity of their representatives. Krasińskis’s contacts reach Italian polititians of different fractions who are active in the area of Rome as well as the lively relations with Holy See and aim at making all of them interested in ‘Polish issue’ in many dimensions and fields. In case of the poet’s correspondence the relevant issues of political nature coexist next to strictly personal threads (affection towards Delfina) which creates indisputable charming atmosphere . The unpublished correspondence of that period sheds new light on these issues, represents the relevant interpretation key for important matters of political nature. Moreover, it exposes the companionably-social relations of Odescalchi princes, Zygmunt Krasiński and his family and Holy See.