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Chrysis

Author(s): Sylwiusz Eneasz Piccolomini / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2017

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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Author(s): Poggio Bracciolini / Language(s): Polish / Publication Year: 2019

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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Author(s): Leon Battista Alberti / Language(s): Polish,Latin / Publication Year: 2020

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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Series:Biblioteka Renesansowa

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