Szymon Szymonowic

Szymon Szymonowic (in Latin, Simon Simonides; in Armenian, Շիմոն Շիմոնովիչ; also, in Polish, "Szymonowicz" and "Bendoński"; Lwów, 24 October 1558 – 5 May 1629, Czarnięcin, near Zamość) was a Polish Renaissance poet.

Szymonowic studied in Poland (Lwów, Kraków), France and Belgium.

From 1586 he was associated with Grand Hetman and Royal Chancellor Jan Zamoyski, with whom in 1593–1605 he organized the Zamojski Academy.

A humanist fluent in Greek and Latin, Szymonowic wrote in Polish Sielanki (Pastorals, 1614), a work influenced by the pastoral poems of Virgil and Theocritus.

Szymonowic is considered the last great poet of the Polish Renaissance.