La Fontaine's model was subsequently emulated by England's John Gay ( 1685 – 1732 ); Poland's Ignacy Krasicki ( 1735 – 1801 ); Italy's Lorenzo Pignotti ( 1739 – 1812 ) and Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi ( 1754 – 1827 ); Serbia's Dositej Obradović ( 1742 – 1811 ); Spain's Félix María de Samaniego ( 1745 – 1801 ) and Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa ( 1750 – 1791 ); France's Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian ( 1755 – 94 ); and Russia's Ivan Krylov ( 1769 – 1844 ).

The first partial Polish translation of Ossian was made by Ignacy Krasicki in 1793.

Ignacy Krasicki, the last prince-bishop of Warmia as well as Elightment Polish poet, friend of Frederick the Great whom he did not give Homage as his new king, was nominated to the Archbishopric of Gnesen ( Gniezno ) in 1795.

Ignacy Krasicki ( 3 February 173514 March 1801 ), from 1766 Prince-Bishop of Warmia ( in German, Ermland ) and from 1795 Archbishop of Gniezno ( thus, Primate of Poland ), was Poland's leading Enlightenment poet (" the Prince of Poets "), a critic of the clergy, Poland's La Fontaine, author of the first Polish novel, playwright, journalist, encyclopedist, and translator from French and Greek.

Krasicki was born in Dubiecko, on southern Poland's San River, into a family bearing the title of count of the Holy Roman Empire.

When Poniatowski was elected king ( 1764 ), Krasicki became his chaplain.

In 1766 Krasicki, after having served that year as coadjutor to Prince-Bishop of Warmia Adam Stanisław Grabowski, was himself elevated to Prince-Bishop of Warmia and ex officio membership in the Senate of the Commonwealth.

In 1786 Krasicki was called to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

In 1795, six years before his death, Krasicki was elevated to Archbishop of Gniezno ( thus, to Primate of Poland ).

Upon his death in Berlin in 1801, Krasicki was laid to rest at St. Hedwig's Cathedral, which he had consecrated.

It was not until November 1, 1773 when the king's friend, Ignacy Krasicki, then Bishop of Warmia ( later Archbishop of Gniezno ), officiated at the cathedral's opening.

The main author of mock-heroic poems in Polish was Ignacy Krasicki, who wrote Myszeida ( Mouseiad ) in 1775 and Monacomachia ( The War of the Monks ) in 1778.

She was married in 1592 to Jan Zamoyski, and later to Marcin Krasicki.

* Fables and Parables ( 1779 ) by Ignacy Krasicki

* Fables and Parables ( 1779 ) by Ignacy Krasicki

In 1772, as a result of the First Partition, instigated by Prussia's King Frederick II (" the Great "), Krasicki became a Prussian subject.

* Krasicki, Ignacy ( tr by Gerard Kapolka ) Polish Fables: Bilingual.

* The Adventures of Nicholas Experience, by Ignacy Krasicki ( 1776 )

Fables and Parables ( Bajki i przypowieści, 1779 ), by Ignacy Krasicki ( 1735 – 1801 ), is a work in a long international tradition of fable-writing that reaches back to antiquity.

* Ignacy Krasicki, Bajki: wybór ( Fables: a Selection ), selected and with introduction by Zdzisław Libera, illustrated with drawings by Gustave Doré, Warsaw, Państwowy Instytut Wydawniczy, 1974.

* Pan Podstoli, a novel by Ignacy Krasicki

Christopher Kasparek ( born 1945 ) is a Scottish-born writer of Polish descent who has translated works by Ignacy Krasicki, Bolesław Prus, Florian Znaniecki, Władysław Tatarkiewicz, Marian Rejewski and Władysław Kozaczuk, as well as the Polish-Lithuanian Constitution of May 3, 1791.

His translations of verse include selected Fables and Parables by Ignacy Krasicki.

* Fables and Parables by Ignacy Krasicki

In Krasiczyn stands the Krasicki Palace, a Renaissance palace built for Stanisław Krasicki by Galleazzo Appiani.

Satirical poets outside England include Poland's Ignacy Krasicki, Azerbaijan's Sabir and Portugal's Manuel Maria Barbosa du Bocage.

The First Partition had rendered Krasicki — an intimate of Poland's last king, Stanisław August Poniatowski — involuntarily a subject of that Partition's instigator, Prussia's King Frederick II (" the Great ").

Returning to Poland, Krasicki became secretary to the Primate of Poland and developed a friendship with future King Stanisław August Poniatowski.

Among notable guests were King Augustus II the Strong ( 1726 to 1727 and again in 1729 ), King Augustus III and his wife and sons Prince Francis Xavier and Prince Charles ( 1744 and 1752 ), Prince Charles of Saxony, Duke of Courland ( twice in 1759 ), Bishop Ignacy Krasicki ( 1760 ), King Stanisław August Poniatowski ( occasionally ), Emperor Joseph II Habsburg ( 1780 ), Grand Duke Paul, future Tsar Paul I of Russia, with his wife ( 1782 ), King Louis XVIII of France ( 1798 ), French, English, Turkish and Russian envoys and Italian actress.

Many of them were prominent Polish figures, including luminaries such as Ignacy Krasicki, Franciszek Bohomolec, Adam Naruszewicz, Ignacy Potocki, Hugo Kołłątaj, Jan and Jędrzej Śniadecki, Stanisław Konarski, Tomasz Adam Ostrowski and Chancellor Andrzej Zamoyski.

After Frederick the Great's death, Krasicki continued relations with Frederick's successor.

Emulating the fables of the ancient Greek Aesop, the Macedonian-Roman Phaedrus, the Polish Biernat of Lublin, and the Frenchman Jean de La Fontaine, and anticipating Russia's Ivan Krylov, the Pole Krasicki populates his fables with anthropomorphized animals, plants, inanimate objects, and forces of nature, in epigrammatic expressions of a skeptical, ironic view of the world.

In the same treatise, Krasicki explains that a fable " is a story commonly ascribed to animals, that people who read it might take instruction from animals ' example or speech ...; it originated in eastern lands where supreme governance reposed in the hands of autocrats.

Soon after the First Partition, Krasicki officiated at the 1773 opening of Berlin's St. Hedwig's Cathedral, which Frederick had built for Catholic immigrants to Brandenburg and Berlin.

The prince-bishop, a personal friend of Frederick the Great, the noted Polish author Ignacy Krasicki, though deprived of temporal authority, retained influence at the Prussian court before his reappointment as Archbishop of Gniezno in 1795.

Krasicki would, unlike Frederick, survive to witness the final dismemberment of the Commonwealth.

Notable verse fabulists have included Aesop, Vishnu Sarma, Phaedrus, Marie de France, Robert Henryson, Biernat of Lublin, Jean de La Fontaine, Ignacy Krasicki, Félix María de Samaniego, Tomás de Iriarte, Ivan Krylov and Ambrose Bierce.

* Ignacy Krasicki ( 1735 – 1801 ): Polish.

Krasicki protested publicly against external intervention.

Palace of Krasicki family in Krasiczyn.

In return he made up for the enormous debts of then Prince-Bishop Ignacy Krasicki.