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In English. (4), 7-41, (1) pages. 215 x 158 mm.Limited edition. Damage to top 25mm of spine. Written originally in Latin by Laurence Grimald Gozlisk in 1568. [Colophon:] was written in English in 1944 and published in 1946.The Oficyna Warszawska Abroad was founded in 1938 by Anatol Girs and Boleslaw Barcz in Warsaw and burned during the Warsaw uprising in 1944. Boleslaw Barcz lost his life at this time. The Accomplished Senator is the fourth publication of O.W.A. 1500 copies are printed in Wallau type twelve points. Initials are taken from old publications by Stanislaus Polonus from sevilla. 25 copies are printed on Simili Japan paper and provided with Roman numeration. They are signed by the author and the publisher. July 1046.Wawrzyniec Goslicki (Latin: Laurentius Grimaldius Goslicius; between 1530 and 1540 - 31 October 1607) was a Polish nobleman, Bishop of Poznan (1601-1607), political thinker and philosopher best known for his book De optimo senatore (1568). Son of Pawe? Goslicki and Ewa Kamieniecka, he was born near P?ock. After studying at Krakow's Jagiellonian University and at Padua and Bologna, he entered the Roman Catholic Church. In 1569 he joined the Polish royal chancery and as a secretary served two kings, Sigismund II Augustus and Stefan Batory, and was successively appointed bishop of Kamieniec Podolski (1586), Chelm (1590), Przemysl (1591), and Poznan (1601). Goslicki was a man of affairs, highly esteemed by contemporaries, and frequently engaged in active politics. He was also a staunch advocate of religious tolerance in Poland. It was due to his influence and to a letter that he wrote to the Pope against the Jesuits that they were prevented from establishing schools at Krakow during his reign. He was the only prelate who, in 1587, acceded to the Warsaw Confederation. Goslicki's Latin book De optimo senatore (published during his stay in Italy in Venice, 1568) and dedicated to King Zygmunt August, subsequently appeared in four English translations: as The Counsellor (considered inaccurate) in 1598, A commonwealth of good counsaile in 1607, The Accomplished Senator. . . Done into English. . . By Mr. Oldisworth in 1733, and most recently as The Accomplished Senator in K. Thompson's translation in 1992. The book proved immensely important in Britain among forces opposed to the Tudor monarchy; it was widely quoted and cited in opposition pamphlets and leaflets during the period leading up to the British Civil Wars of the 1640s. In this book Goslicki shows the ideal statesman who is well versed in the humanities as well as in economy, politics, and law. He argued that law is above the ruler, who must respect it, and that it is illegitimate to rule over a people against its will. He equated godliness with reason, and reason with law. Many of the book's ideas comprised the foundations of the Polish Nobles' Democracy (1505-1795) and were based on 14th-century writings by Stanis?aw of Skarbimierz. The book was not translated into Polish for 400 years. The book was influential abroad, exporting the ideas of Poland's Golden Freedom and democratic system. It was a political and social classic, widely read and long popular in England after its 1598 translation; read by Elizabeth I of England, it was also known by Shakespeare, who used his depiction of an incompetent senator as a model for Polonius in Hamlet. Its ideas might be seen in the turmoil that gripped England around the times of the Glorious Revolution. Goslicki's ideas were perhaps suggestive for future national constitutions. Goslicki never wrote that "all men are created equal," but did say, "Sometimes a people, justly provoked and irritated, by the Tyranny and Usurpations of their Kings, take upon themselves the undoubted Right of vindicating their own liberties." The book was allegedly read by Robert Bellarmine, Algernon Sydney and Thomas Jefferson (who had it in his library), but there is no evidence of a direct link with Jefferson's Declaration of Ind. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 016301
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