Lux gemmae celsissima
- First performance: 7. 7. 1729, Telč, rhetoric
- Author: Joannes Tiller, SJ (1701–1735)
In his third Nepomucene play, Vanity of Vanities used J. Tiller the psychomachia principle. John is presented here as a “spiritual teacher” (sacratior magister, vitae sanctioris magister) – apparently already as a young man, who with the help of the usual symbols of vanity (apple ridden with worms, rose hiding its thorn etc.) saves the soul of a noble youth from the seduction of Philocosmus.
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Synopsis
Lux gemmae celsissima e monte Quirinali inter colles aeternales Vaticano oraculo
sublimato Sanctitatis sideri Divo Joanni Nepomuceno in Celsissimo et Reverendissimo
S.R.I. Principe ac Domino Domino Iacobo Ernesto Dei et Apostolicae Sedis gratia Episcopo
Seccoviensi e S.R.I. Comitibus de Liechtenstein, libero Barone de Castelcorn
splendidissime collucens, dum praecelso eiusdem Sancti honori ac venerationi ab
Illustrissima Liechtensteiniana Munificentia in colle Telczensi neo-erectum sacellum
solemni consecrationis fulgore illustraret, gymnicos inter parietes demississimo homagio
a Pallade Telczensi Societatis Jesu honorata anno 1729, mense Julio, die 7. Novae
Domini: Typis Joannis Friderici Jakesch, 1729.
National
Library CR, sign. 52 A 39, adl. 122
Národní archiv, fond Jesuitica, IIIo-480, kart. 209, f. 91ar–91cv
Národní archiv, fond Jesuitica, IIIo-480, kart. 209, f. 66ar–66bv (německy)
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Bibliography
Kateřina Bobková-Valentová – Alena Bočková – Magdaléna Jacková – Martin Bažil – Eva
Pauerová – Jan Zdichynec – Zdeněk Žalud: Sv. Jan Nepomucký na jezuitských školních
scénách. Praha: Academia, 2015. (= Theatrum Neolatinum. Latinské divadlo v českých
zemích, 1.), p. 30-31.
Arnošt Kraus: Husitství v literatuře, zejména německé II. Husitství v literatuře barokní a osvícenské, Praha : Česká akademie 1918, s. 51–52.
