Some Renaissance/Early Modern Topoi in the Twenty First Century

Introduction: Concepts and Strategies 9
Marta Wiszniowska-Majchrzyk ~ The Dismissal of the Greek Envoys-A Forgotten Trajectory Within the Web of European Renaissance 15
Krystyna Kujawińska Courtney ~ The Marginalization of Lucrece’s Story in the Early Modern Polish Culture 31
Natalia Brzozowska ~ Revisiting the Jacobean War of the Sexes: Righteous Anger, Patriarchal Anxiety and the Swetnam Controversy 39
Stanisław Obirek ~ The Founding Rupture. From Strong to Weak Identity 55
Paul Hulsenboom ~ “Have the Menacing Alcaean Muses Blown the War Trumpets Again?” Two Versions of Jacobus Wallius’ Ode to Mathias Casimirus Sarbievius 71
Andrzej Wicher ~ On Going to Hell. The Conception of the Underworld in Przeraźliwe echo trąby ostatecznej (The Shrill Sound of the Ultimate Trumpet) (1670) by Father Klemens Bolesławiusz (1625-1689), and of the Otherworld in Lucifer (1654) by Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679) 97
Mariusz Misztal ~ Giovanni Della Casa’s Galateo: A Serious Treatise on Manners or “Only a Joke” 115
Katarzyna Kozak ~ Evolution of the Political System in the Kingdom of Sicily (Sixteenth-Seventeenth Century) 133
Works cited 151
Index of Names 165