Knowledge Transfer and the Early Modern University: Statecraft and Philosophy at the Akademia Zamojska (1595–1627)

Valentina Lepri is Professor of History of Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. After obtaining a PhD from the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento, Florence, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel and at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies - Villa i Tatti, working on the manipulation of Niccolò Machiavelli’s and Francesco Guicciardini’s texts. More recently, she has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 programme. Her monographs and articles explore the forms of knowledge production and dissemination in the Early Modern Age, with special reference to late sixteenth-century philosophical and political issues.

Preface

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations


1 The Akademia Zamojska: Shaping a Renaissance University

1 Universities in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

2 The Polish Political System

3 The School and the City

4 Organisation of the Academy and Its Models

5 Study Programmes and Regulations

6 Doctoral Studies


2 Migration and Knowledge

1 Part 1

1.1 Recruitment of the First Teachers

1.2 A Varied and Cosmopolitan Teaching Body

1.3 Libraries within the Library

2 Part 2

2.1 Motives and Methods of the Study Trips

2.2 Travels of Teaching Staff and the Polish–Italian Network

2.3 The Poles in Padua


3 Philosophical Skills for Political Life

1 Part 1

1.1 Printers and Professors around the Press

1.2 Grammar Textbooks for the Younger Students

1.3 Rhetoric in the Syllabus and in the Print Shop

1.4 A Science of Discourse

1.5 A Dialectic for Governance


2 Part 2

2.1 Reasoning as a Politician

2.2 Hidden Treasures in the Manuscript Archive

2.3 The Place of Ethics in the Curriculum


Contents
Afterword

Annex

1 Fundatio Academiae Zamoscensis

2 Deeds of Foundation of the Akademia Zamojska

Bibliography

Index of Names