Mikołaj Sęp Szarzyński

He was born in Zimna Woda near Lwów, the eldest of three sons, and educated at the universities of Wittenberg and Leipzig.

His stay in Germany brought him close to Protestantism but he later became an ardent Catholic and his religious devotion is reflected in his poems.

After his death, Sęp Szarzyński's verse was collected by his brother Jakub and published under the title Rytmy abo wiersze polskie in 1601.

Mikołaj Sęp Szarzyński's work is often called "the sunset of the Polish Renaissance".

[7] The most important is perhaps the sonnet On the War We Wage Against Satan, the World, and the Body was translated into English by Michael J.