Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. 120, No. 2, 1976, ISSN0003-049X: „The second example of secular literature is the 126 Leonine verses in 21 stanzas which constitute the poem De quodam advocate Alberto (early fourteenth century, post 1311). Albert had been the civil administrator of Cracow under Duke W. Lokietek and had led an unsuccessful revolt against Piast leadership in conjunction with the bishop of Cracow, Jan Muskata. The orientation of this uprising was anti-Polish and pro-German, in both a cultural and a political sense, and it had been repressed with great severity. The poem itself, from the hand of an anonymous Pole whose Germano- phobia prevades the text, is cast in the form of a posthumous confession by an Albert conjured from the grave. Its worth as a historical source is clearly limited, but as a literary endeavor it is a clever piece of satire and political propaganda.“ [1]
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. 120, No. 2, 1976, ISSN0003-049X: „The second example of secular literature is the 126 Leonine verses in 21 stanzas which constitute the poem De quodam advocate Alberto (early fourteenth century, post 1311). Albert had been the civil administrator of Cracow under Duke W. Lokietek and had led an unsuccessful revolt against Piast leadership in conjunction with the bishop of Cracow, Jan Muskata. The orientation of this uprising was anti-Polish and pro-German, in both a cultural and a political sense, and it had been repressed with great severity. The poem itself, from the hand of an anonymous Pole whose Germano- phobia prevades the text, is cast in the form of a posthumous confession by an Albert conjured from the grave. Its worth as a historical source is clearly limited, but as a literary endeavor it is a clever piece of satire and political propaganda.“ [1]
