(Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza, 2009) Malinowska
This study concerns an epic poem entitled Radivilias (Vilnius 1592) by Jan Radwan, the subject of
which is the Livonian War regarded as the greatest military exploit of Mikołaj Radziwiłł the Red.
The poem based mainly on Lucan’s Bellum civile with extensive Vergilian imitation portrays Mikołaj
Radziwiłł the Red as a heroic individual struggling against the invasion of Ivan the Terrible in 1564.