TY - JOUR AU - Niebelska-Rajca, Barbara PY - 2011/06/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Poeta imitatore czy poeta facitore? Późnorenesansowe włoskie dyskusje o mimesis JF - Odrodzenie i Reformacja w Polsce JA - OR VL - 55 IS - 0 SE - Artykuły i rozprawy DO - 10.12775/OiRwP.2011.05 UR - https://apcz.umk.pl/OR/article/view/OiRwP.2011.05 SP - 101-122 AB - <p><em>Poeta Imitatore </em>or <em>Poeta Facitore</em>? Late Renaissance Italian Discussions about <em>Mimesis</em></p><p>The article presents the opposition to the imitative dimension of mimesis, one of the characteristic trends in Italian late Renaissance thought in literary theory. Examples of polemics against the traditional doctrine of mimesis (F. Patrizi i G. G. Cinzio), comments on Plato’s concept of fantastic mimesis (G. Mazzoni, G. Comanini) and the terminological decisions of XVI c. theorists, willing to use the terms <em>fingere </em>and <em>fare </em>instead of the traditional <em>imitare</em>, show that in literary theoretical reflection at the time of the Renaissance appeared a clear appreciation of the fictionally creative aspect of poetic work. The creative dimension of the poets’ craft, utilizing creativity and imagination, is preferred and valued incomparably higher than the copy–cat method of “creating images” at the end of the XVI c.</p> ER -