The volume is significant for Hungarian literary history because it is a collection of occasional poems β which were fashionable at the time β edited by the author himself. No other similar work is known from that era in Hungary.
The more interesting poems are analyzed in detail, providing references to both ancient and contemporary sources. His relative familiarity with the contemporary intellectual milieu and his surviving literary works are not at all indicative of the neglect that has surrounded him. We first encounter the analogy of Filiczki with Ovid in a six-line epigram by Filiczki's former teacher in Marburg, the poet laureate Hermann Kirchner β inc. Haec aliquis veterum legat ortus in urbe Quiritum ; app.
Kirchner's words β since he could read the poems β probably not accidentally refer to Janus Pannonius β , adding another twist to the parallel of the Pannonian Ovid.
The fifth line also reveals that Filiczki β by resurrecting Ovid β not only brought back the ashes, the poetic talent vena and the passion favilla of the Roman poet, but actually he was the one who finally brought tulisse them to this land. Kirchner, however, tries to subtly evoke the Janus-reminiscence in a way that does not require us to compare Filiczki with his great poetic predecessor.
.jpg "Anal Girl in Basel")
In such a contest, he would obviously be worsted. This is why Kirchner directs Filiczki as the second, resurrected Ovid not to the Danube but to the Sava. The ashes may be a reference to the poet's corporeality dixerit et cineres venamque tulisse favillas , to the poet reborn in a new body. It cannot be argued that by the beginning of the 17th century the banks of the Pannonian rivers were so crowded that the thirsty muses of the barbarian poets had to squeeze their way through the swarm.
