Treść książki
Przejdź do opcji czytnikaPrzejdź do nawigacjiPrzejdź do informacjiPrzejdź do stopki
StrategiesofEarlyModernRoyalRepresentation…
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comparisonofthecoinsfromthe1540sandthe1550s-1570s.Themintmas-
tersinthediscussedperiodswereEnochOliferandGeorgeBehm,andthe
managerofthemintinLithuaniawasJanLutomirski.Theoverviewoftheir
background,connections,andworkpracticescanbringinsightsconsidering
thespecificsoftherepresentationofAugustus)imageonthefirstcoins.56
Fig.8-9.LithuaniangroszofSigismundAugustus,1546;incollectionoftheNational
MuseuminKrakow/thePrincesCzartoryskiMuseum,no.MNKVII-P-1931957
Finally,therewasanextratoolofshapingandcirculatingSigismund)s
imagewhichcanhardlybeattestedbysources:rumours,whichwereusuallydis-
seminatedinoralratherthanwrittenform(however,thelattervariationsshould
notbeexcludedcompletely).Fewmentionsofthemhavebeenpreserved.For
instance,theLithuaniansenatorsandnoblespraisedtheyoungduke)sdeedsin
frontofhisfather,Hdoniebawynoszącmądrośćiczułośćiego”afterAugustustook
overgoverningLithuania.
58
ThoserumourswerebeneficialforyoungAugustus
andcouldthushavebeeninspiredbyhim.GossipregardingAugustus)relation-
shipwithBarbaraRadziwiłłwasrecordedinamentionbyGórnicki(HAiżbyło
sławępuszczonoonim,żebymiałpoiąćżonęzdomuPanówRadziwiłłów
Barbarę”),Stryjkowski(Hpasqwilusserozmaitepissano”),andtheHLibelagainst
theSecondMarriageofKingSigismundAugustus,”translatedbyKosior.
59
56E.Ivanauskas,E.Česnulis,CoinsofLithuania:1386–1707,Savastis,Vilnius-Columbia
1999,p.91.
57Zbiorycyfrowe,MuzeumNarodowewKrakowie,https://zbiory.mnk.pl/en/search-
-result/catalog/328383,Accessed10.01.2021.
58Ł.Górnicki,DziejewKoroniePolskiej(1805),p.292.
59Ibidem,p.293;M.Stryjkowski,op.cit.,p.761.SeethetranslationofHLibel”in
K.Kosior,op.cit.,pp.215-217.
