Renaissance Culture in Poland: The Rise of Humanism, 1470 - 1543

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This is the first book-length account of Renaissance humanism in 15th- and 16th-century Poland. Harold B. Segel demonstrates that a lively community of intellectuals--Copernicus among them--helped to bring Poland into the mainstream of contemporary European culture and to lay the foundations for the Polish High Renaissance of the second half of the sixteenth century. Contents Acknowledgments Guide to Polish Pronunciation Introduction 1 Gregory of Sanok, the Freethinking Archbishop 2 From San Gimignano to Cracow: The Extraordinary Career of Filippo Buonaccorsi, Alias Callimachus 3 The Humanist a-Touring: Celtis among the Sarmatians 4 Period of Transition 5 Copernicus: The Scientist as Humanist 6 Pope Leo X, the Bison, and Renaissance Cultural Politics 7 At the Courts of Kings and Emperors: Dantiscus as Diplomat and Poet 8 The Hell-Raiser Who Became Primate of Poland 9 Clemens Ianicius, the Fragile Blossom of Polish Latinity 10 Epilogue: Jan Kochanowski and the Twilight of Polish Humanism Notes Index