TY - JOUR
TI - Wąż Miedziany i rzekoma nobilitacja. Przyczynek do biografii Tomasza Tretera
AU - Kiliańczyk-Zięba, Justyna
TI - Wąż Miedziany i rzekoma nobilitacja. Przyczynek do biografii Tomasza Tretera
AB - 
	The Brazen Serpent and the Alleged Ennoblement: A Case for Tomasz Treter’s Biography

	The article discusses signs of identity (burgher arms) of Tomasz Treter (Treterus, 1547–1610). Treter was a trusted secretary of Cardinal Stanisław Hozjusz (Hosius), but also a draughtsman, a painter, an engraver, a designer of monuments and prints, and a Neo-Latin poet. The texts focuses on Treter’s non-armorial seals, depicting a shield with a winged snake twisted around a cross (the Brazen Serpent) and on Treter’s two supralibros (one with the burgher arms and the other displaying an impresa). The paper also analyses emblematic compositions in Symbolica vitae Christi meditatio, a volume of meditations composed by Treter. These sources are used to undermine the belief that Treter was ennobled by Pope Gregory XIII and that he used the Boncompagni’s coat of arms (Draco).
VL - 2023
IS - Tom 25, zeszyt 2 (67) 2023
PY - 2024
SN - 2082-0984
C1 - 2084-3844
SP - 221
EP - 242
DO - 10.4467/20843844TE.23.011.18199
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/terminus/artykul/waz-miedziany-i-rzekoma-nobilitacja-przyczynek-do-biografii-tomasza-tretera
KW - sign of identity
KW - burgher arms
KW - ennoblement
KW - supralibros
KW - seal
KW - Tomasz Treter
KW - the Brazen Serpent