"Some Renaissance/ Early Modern Topoi in the Twenty First Century"

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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