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Introduction
twoorthreemassintentionsforthehealthofhiswifeAnnaofHercyk
andtheireightchildren.RelationswiththeGreeksofTessalonikiwere
notalwaysideal,whensomeclericscouldnotappreciatehisEuropeanism,
knowledge,erudition,calledhimaLatinist,accostedhimlikethat“fool
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ishandmadhighpriest”who,asOrlykwrites,“consideringmeaheretic,
astheysay,aLatinist,doubtedmyadmissiontocommunionandranto
consulthismetropolitanandconfessor.
Contemporaryscholarsstressthat“[h]isentireworldviewisimbued
withpiety:itissimple,solid,organicandatthesametimetheoretically
sound.”
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Hisscholarlyinterestslieintheology,historyandpolitics,asevi
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dentinthetheologicaldiscussionsinwhichthe1726manuscriptabounds.
Hewasabookman.TePsalms,EcclesiastesandStAugustinewere
sourcesofinspirationwithwhichhewasinseparable,seekingconsolation
inreligion.WelearnaboutHetman’spreferencesanderuditionfromElie
Borschak’sandPetroZlenko’spapers
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.AmongOrlyk’slibrarybooksare
Herodotus,Strabon,Pliny,VirgilandOvid.InSweden,OrlikbuysaDutch
editionofFrançoisFénelon’s1719bookTelemachusandreadsitonhis
waytoTessaloniki.HereadDutchnewspaperswithparticularinterest
(asthemostinformedatthetime)andFrench,ItalianandGermanpress;
theDiarycontainsinterestingcommentsonwhatheread.
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Hisbookcol
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lectionincludedworksbyDante,MolièreandShakespeare.SoOrlyktook
notesinFrenchfromShakespeare’sRichardIIIandKingLear.Hereadthe
worksofeloquentFrenchpreachers,tookaninterestinlegalissues,and,
asapolitician,gleanedhisinformationaboutwhatwashappeninginthe
worldfromthepressandconversationswithtravellers.
TerelationshipbetweentheOrlyksandVoltaireisaseparatetopic.It
isknownthatOrlykjuniorgaveVoltairefromOrlykseniorseveralvalu-
ablematerials,basedonwhichVoltairewrotetheHistoryofCharlesXII.
66Ibidem,p.175.
67I.Борщак,“ДантейoрлMк,”Укра{нськаТрибуна1922,22,pp.2-3(hiscontribu-
tioninItalianisalsoimportant:“L’atamannoucrainoFilippoOrliksuDante,”L’Europa
orientale4,1924,3,p.169n.);idem,“ВкнMгозб.рн.гетbманаoрлMка,”Л.тератур-
но-НауковийВ.сник11,1923,pp.260-266;idem,“ΠMлMпoрлMк-кнMжнMк,”Б.бл.о-
граф.чн.в.ст.1929,2-3,pp.48-53;Π.Зленко,“Укра.нсbк.прM;атн.б.бл.отекM(I;ана
МазепM,ΠMлMпаoрлMка,KMрMлаPозумо;сbкого),”Укра{нськакнига9-10,1937,
pp.197-203.
68Diverseincontentandtone:bothvitalandlifeafrming,aswellastragic,dramatic
andsometimessarcastic,asforexamplewhencommentingonthestoriesofincestuous
marriagesintheEuropeanpressOrlykendshisreflectionswithawittyproverb:“Asis
faith,soissacrifice.”
