Kontakty Pietra Bemba z Polakami

Abstract

The article presents the relationship between one of the main representatives of Italianhumanism – Pietro Bembo – with Poles. The most important aspect was his friendship withKlemens Janicki who studied in Padua in 1538–1540. His works are a testimony of contactshe had established when in Italy. Bembo was mentioned in Janicki’s works (Variae Elegiae IX,Epigrammata LII). Another element connecting the Italian with Poles were congratulatoryletters on his cardinal appointment. The newly-appointed cardinal was congratulated by kingSigismund the Old via enigmatic figures of Jan Wincenty Dulcis de Lasco and Piotr Kmita.A trace of Bembo’s contact with Poles is also the formal correspondence of his while being thesecretary of Pope Leo X.