Mikołaj Hussowczyk

Mikołaj Hussowczyk (Belarusian: Мікола Гусоўскі, romanized: Mikola Husoŭski, Lithuanian: Mikalojus Husovianas, Latin: Nicolaus Hussovianus).

Other name spelling variants include Hussoviensis, Hussovianus, Ussovius, Hussowski, Gusowski); (c. 1480[a] – c. 1533[b]) was an early Renaissance poet and humanist of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and a cultural and social activist.

His Latin poem Carmen de statura, feritate ac venatione bisontis ("A Song about the Appearance, Savagery and Hunting of the Bison", Kraków 1523) is considered to be the first large scale fictional work about Medieval Lithuania (or Belarus),[6] describing the bison's life and habits, Lithuania's landscape and the relationship of its inhabitants with the environment.

[8] Written in Latin for Pope Leo X, an avid hunter, the poem stems from Hussowczyk's experience in hunting and observing bison, and contains no literary comparisons with ancient legendary creatures.

Due to the deaths of both the Pope and Hussowczyk's patron, bishop Ciołek, the poem was eventually presented to Polish Queen Bona in Kraków.