Jan Zamoyski – vir bonus et vere humanus
Jan Zamoyski: vir bonus et vere humanus

Author(s): Alina Nowicka-Jeżowa
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: humanism; Polish Renaissance; European Renaissance; patronage; Jan Zamoyski; Zamoyski Academy;16th-century drama; occasional writing; politics in 16th-century Polish Commonwealth; 16th-century educati
Summary/Abstract: The article is dedicated to Jan Zamoyski (1542–1605), a Grand Chancellor ofthe Crown and a Great Hetman of the Crown in the Polish Commonwealth, as well as the Founder of Zamość – a town which realized a Renaissance urban ideal of modernity and beauty, providing favorable environment forspiritual, intellectual, social, and financial development. The portrait of Zamoyski – a statesman, military leader, scholar, and patron of the arts – allows to interpret his political, military, scholarly, and cultural achievements as an example of the mature humanitas ideal. The author of the article pointsout that his biography, created by Zamoyski himself and by other writers in his environment, reflected the highest aspirations of European Renaissance humanism. In the Polish Commonwealth, it became a model of success, both in civic and private life; it also influenced the formation of collective identity in the next centuries.

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