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Biernat of Lublin (Polish: Biernat z Lublina, 1465? – after 1529) was a Polish poet, fabulist and physician. He was one of the first Polish-language writers known by name, and the most interesting of the earliest ones. He expressed plebeian, Renaissance and religiously liberal opinions.

Biernat wrote the first book printed in Polish, a prayer-book, Raj duszny (Soul's Paradise, 1513). He also penned the first secular work in Polish literature: a collection of verse fables, Ezop... (Aesop..., c. 1510), plebeian and anticlerical in nature (first known edition, 1578, titled Żywot Ezopa Fryga Life of Aesop the Phrygian).

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Biernat z Lublina

 

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