Śmiertelna rozkosz. Motywy ognia i wody oraz ich rola w opisie choroby miłosnej w Roksolankach Szymona Zimorowica oraz w cyklu erotyków przypisywanych Mikołajowi Sępowi Szarzyńskiemu

The text is an analysis of motifs of fire and water in Roksolanki by Szymon Zimorowic and in a cycle of erotic poems attributed to Mikołaj Sęp Szarzyński. They are discussed in their original cultural context, corresponding with the aesthetic postulates of Baroque, serving realization of a known literary topos of aegritudo amoris and describing the motif of death out of love, popular in this era. The analysis, conducted in reference with findings of Paweł Stępień, Jan Błoński and Mirosława Hanusiewicz, ends with a conclusion according to which most issues present in the texts of both authors correspond with the conventions, but they also contain original content, connected with specific associations in the imagination of the poets. In Zimorowic’s works, it is a vision of two kinds of fire – a flame of God’s love and the Cupid’s fire – corresponding with the biography of the author of Roksolanki. For the author of the collection of erotic letters, the most important thing is showing water as an emblem of misfortune (which is also characteristic to those texts by Sęp, the authorship of which raises no doubts).