Edycja krytyczna Listu przyjacielskiego Krzysztofa Bronisza z traktatu Piotra Umiastowskiego Nauka o morowym powietrzu na czwory księgi rozłożona (1591)
The article, which collates previous knowledge about Piotr Umiastowski (‘a doctor in sciences philosophical and medical’, whose work dates probably to the turn of the seventeenth century), centres on the List przyjacielski upominający Autora do wydania tych ksiąg [A Friendly Letter to Hasten the Aut...
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The Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences
2022-12-01
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/napis/3594 |
| Summary: | The article, which collates previous knowledge about Piotr Umiastowski (‘a doctor in sciences philosophical and medical’, whose work dates probably to the turn of the seventeenth century), centres on the List przyjacielski upominający Autora do wydania tych ksiąg [A Friendly Letter to Hasten the Author to Publish these Volumes], written by Krzysztof Bronisz in Mruczyna on 7 September 1590. It is one of the texts constituting the literary publishing framework of Nauka o morowym powietrzu na czwory księgi rozłożona [A Study on Bad Air in Four Volumes]. On the one hand, this text provides proof of the failed efforts of Piotr Umiastowski to secure funding to print the work (testimony on which can be found in the dedication letter to Jerzy Czartoryski). On the other hand, it provokes the author to formulate a preface titled Autor do Czytelnika łaskawego [From the Author to the Kind Reader], exposing the behind-the-scenes of the creation of the work and the functioning of its shortened version in manuscript circulation. Juxtaposing the Nauka o morowym powietrzu na czwory księgi rozłożona with the anti-miasma works by other Polish doctors of the sixteenth century (Maciej from Miechowo, Malcher Piotrkowita), suggests that these authors were particularly eager to point to friendly requests, which they yielded to, fulfilling their Christian and civic duty at the same time, as reasons for publishing. The article includes a critical edition of the List przyjacielski upominający Autora do wydania tych ksiąg by Krzysztof Bronisz, a figure completely unknown, though noted twice in the Bibliografia polska [The Polish Bibliography] by the Estreichers. |
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| ISSN: | 1507-4153 2719-4191 |