Table of Contents

Grażyna Urban-Godziek, Introduction. The Polish Golden Age – Current State of the Arts and Challenges 7

From the History of the Renaissance Idea Riccardo Fubini (Firenze), Old Trends and New Perspectives in Renaissance Scholarship 15 Ryszard Kasperowicz (Lublin), A Portrait of Renaissance Man in the Writings of Jacob Burckhardt 35 Barbara Kaszowska-Wandor (Katowice), The Renaissance and Humanism in the Light of the New Historicism 49 The State of Research on the Renaissance Humanism (Poland Case Mainly) Tadeusz Ulewicz (Kraków), The Earliest Harbingers of Polish Humanism in the Golden Autumn of the Jagiellonian Middle Ages 59 Sante Graciotti (Roma), The Renaissance and Non-Renaissance in Polish Renaissance Literature. 75 Andrzej Borowski (Kraków), Major Currents in the Renaissance and Humanism Studies in Poland in the Last Fifty Years 101 Jerzy Starnawski (Łódź), Aleksander Brückner as a Scholar and the Publisher of Mikołaj Rej’s Works 117 Maciej Włodarski (Kraków), Mikołaj Rej as a Reformation Writer 131 Piotr Wilczek (Warszawa), The Radical Reformation in Poland: Research Models in the Second Half of the 20th Century 145 Jerzy Axer (Warszawa), Latinitas Polonorum or Pedantry à la polonaise 153 Martin Faber (Freiburg im Breisgau), The Formation of European Nationalism during the Renaissance 165 Wacław Walecki (Kraków), Remarks on the Foreign Primary and Secondary Bibliography of the Polish Renaissance 171 Noémi Petneki (Kraków), The State of Research of the Polish-Hungarian Contacts during the Renaissance. An Outline 177

Editing of Primary Sources Janusz Gruchała (Kraków), Problems in Editing Renaissance Texts 187 Jeanine De Landtsheer (Leuven), Iusti Lipsi Epistolae after Half a Century: Status Questions and Prospects 197

Old and Contemporary Translation Studies Elwira Buszewicz (Kraków), From the Renaissance through to Our Times: The Reception of Neo-Latin Poetry in Polish Translation 221 Emiliano Ranocchi (Udine), Some Remarks on Translation in Old Polish Literature: The Kochanowski Case 233

The Renaissance Genres Maria Maślanka-Soro (Kraków), The Concept and Form of Tragedy from the End of Antiquity to the Renaissance 247 Grażyna Urban-Godziek (Kraków), Two Polish Renaissance Elegiac Cycles (by Klemens Janicki and Jan Kochanowski) in the Light of the Contemporary European Practice 261 Roman Krzywy (Warszawa), Jan Kochanowski and Epic Poetry – an Attempt to Reorganize the Current State of Knowledge 277 Magdalena Ryszka-Kurczab (Kraków), The Role of Literary Genetics in the Research into Renaissance Dialogue 293 Aneta Kliszcz (Kraków), In Search of the Renaissance Genre and Its Theory 305

Index of Names 313