1st Edition
Connecting the Renaissance Italy and East Central Europe (1300–1600)
List of Contributors
Introduction
Michael LoPiano
Chapter 1
Little Genoa – The First Italian Community in Poland
Leslie Carr-Riegel
Chapter 2
From Padua to Kraków: Niccolò Bonavia’s De laudibus sancti Hieronymi and Its Manuscript Afterlife
Anja Božič
Chapter 3
A Polish Bishop on the Italian Chessboard: Renaissance Diplomatic Patterns in Zbigniew Oleśnicki’s Struggle for Cardinalate Confirmation
Adam Zapała
Chapter 4
John of Capestrano and his Spiritual Networks: the Case of Bohemia
Antonín Kalous and Petra Mutlová
Chapter 5
The Humanist Library of Jan Długosz (1415-1480). An Attempt at Reconstruction
Zdzisław Koczarski
Chapter 6
Connecting the Italian Humanist Literary Circle to Poland: The Case of Callimachus, Conrad Celtis, and the Origins of the Sodalitas Litteraria Vistulana
Michael LoPiano
Chapter 7
Aldine Prints in Kraków at the Turn of the Sixteenth Century as Vehicles of Cultural Transfer
Anna Horeczy
Chapter 8
From Queen to Deceived Bride – Beatrice of Aragon's Struggle to Become the Wife of Vladislaus II Jagiellon
Hajnalka Kuffart
Chapter 9
Ippolito I d’Este’s Episcopal Court in Eger (1498–1520)
Ilona Kristóf
Index
Biography
Leslie Carr-Riegel studied at Kalamazoo College, USA before transferring to complete her BA degree at the American University in Rome. She took her first MA from the University of Durham before completing her second MA and PhD at the Central European University. She has worked as a Teaching Fellow with the Princeton University Global History Lab and most recently was a fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Legal Unity and Pluralism".
Anna Horeczy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Early Modern Studies at the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland. Her research interests focus on the reception of Italian intellectual culture in late medieval and Early Modern Poland, and book and manuscript studies.
Michael T. LoPiano received his PhD in History and Renaissance Studies from Yale University in 2022 and his BA in History and Italian from the Johns Hopkins University in 2015. He is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Cyprus where his research focuses on the reception of the Tablet of Cebes (Πίναξ) in Latin Europe during the period 1500–1850.
Adam Zapała is the Head of the Digital History Lab at the Department of Historical Atlas of the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences in Poland. His research interests focus on contacts between Poles and the Holy See in the second half of the fifteenth century, as well as on the impact of digital tools on historical research.
