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Chrysis

Author(s): Sylwiusz Eneasz Piccolomini / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Renaissance; humanism; Renaissance comedy; Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini; Chrysis

The first Polish translation of the Neo-Latin comedy Chrysis by Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini (later Pope Pius II), made by Ewa Skwara. An excellent example of a humanistic comedy that was written in 15th-century Italy as an expression of imitation and creative competition with the works of Plautus and Terence. A full scientific study for researchers in Renaissance humanism, literary scholars, cultural historians and readers interested in theatre.

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Jocose Tales

Opowieści ucieszne

Author(s): Poggio Bracciolini / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: Poggio Braccilini; Liber facetiarum; facetiae; jocose tales

The first Polish translation of Poggio Bracciolini’s Liber facetiarum, an unknown work of 15th-century Renaissance Latin literature, comprised of over 270 moralizing, bawdy, at times scandalous, tales. This piece of literature has greatly influenced the work of many authors, including vernacular Polish ones: Mikołaj Rej and Jan Kochanowski.

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One Hundred Apologues

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Author(s): Leon Battista Alberti / Language(s): Polish,Latin

Keywords: Leon Battista Alberti; apologue; Renaissance fable; Apologi centum; moral philosophy of the Renaissance

The work of one of the most eminent Renaissance humanists of the 15th century, Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472). The book consists of one hundred philosophical or allegorical fables, belonging to a literary genre called an apologue. These short stories contain a moral doctrine, often not stated explicitly, which derives from a told story. The books is the first Polish translation by Włodzimierz Olszaniec, supplemented with an academic commentary and a preface.

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Emblems

Emblematy

Author(s): Andrea Alciato / Language(s): Polish,Latin

Keywords: Alciatus; emblem; Emblematum liber

Volume 8 in the series introduces Polish readers to the work of Andrea Alciato (1492-1550), a Milanese jurist and humanist, considered the father of the canonic emblem, a literary genre combining picture and text, which flourished in 16th and 17th century Europe. The book contains the first Polish translation of Alciatus’ work together with a critical commentary and a comprehensive preface.

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Series:Biblioteka Renesansowa

Chrysis

Chrysis

Jocose Tales

Opowieści ucieszne

One Hundred Apologues

Sto bajek

Emblems

Emblematy