Mowa miana w Senacie polskim: The Previously Unknown Early Modern Polish Translation of Equitis Poloni in Jesuitas actio prima. Introduction, Text, and Commentary

Abstract

The text is a critical edition of a previously unknown early modern Polish translation of Equitis Poloni in Jesuitas actio prima (1590), one of the most controversial polemical texts in the history of the Polish Reformation. The translation is published in the transcribed form, based on a recently discovered manuscript in The Princes Czartoryski Library, and accompanied by a commentary that elucidates the text’s historical and literary context. This edition aims to make this significant artefact of Polish political and religious culture accessible as well as to contribute to further interpretive and attributional studies of Actio prima. This is particularly important considering the Polish manuscript’s identification of the text’s author, previously overlooked in scholarship – Jan Drohojewski, Castellan of Sanok.