Skąd polscy pisarze wiedzieli, którędy Gabriel leciał do Maryi? Motyw poetyckiej ekstazy w pośle niebieskim… Andrzeja Dębołęckiego

De partu Virginis (1526) by Jacopo Sannazaro served an inspiration to many authors writing about the Annunciation. One of them, Grzegorz Czeradzki, the author of Rytmy o porodzeniu przenaczystszym Bogarodzice Panny Maryjej, paraphrased the first part of the Italian poem. Similarly as Sannazaro, he described the route that the angel Gabriel took to visit the Blessed Virgin Mary. However, like in the case of many other writers who explored this theme, his description was short and lacked details. Two baroque authors, Andrzej Dębołęcki and Aleksander Obodziński, expanded on the motif. The latter plagiarized the work of the former who described the geographical names of specific places in order to delineate the angel’s route. Neither of them indicated where they had learnt these geographical details from. The sources of this information can only be identified on the basis of the writers’ poetic inspirations.