page_title: Łukasz Górnicki
section_title: Dworzanin Polski
hierarchical_section_title: Łukasz Górnicki / Life / Dworzanin Polski
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Dworzanin polski - Łukasza Górnickiego. Strona tytułowa.
context_page_description: Łukasz Ogończyk Górnicki, humanist of the Polish Renaissance, poet, political commentator, secretary and chancellor of Sigismund August of Poland.
  He wrote a number of works both poetic and political. Górnicki is most famous from his Dworzanin polski, an adaptation of Baldassare Castiglione's Book of the Courtier.
context_section_description: From 1559 to mid-1565, Górnicki worked on a translation and adaptation of Baldassare Castiglione's Book of the Courtier (Il cortegiano).  This was published in Kraków as Dworzanin polski in 1566 and was dedicated to King Sigismund August. Górnicki followed Castiglione's model, but changed it to match the Polish situation.  He moved the discussion at the base of the text from the court of Guidobaldo da Montefeltro in Urbino in 1507 to the residence of Bishop Samuel Maciejowski in Prądnik Biały near Kraków in 1549. In that conversation the participants discuss the ideal courtier, a nonchalant man of good family, who brings together good manners and breeding with honor and education. The discussants in Górnicki's version were: Wojciech Kryski, Stanisław Maciejowski, Andrzej Kostka, Aleksander Myszkowski, Jan Dreśniak, Stanisław Wapowski, Stanisław Bojanowski and Stanisław Lupa Podlodowski (father-in-law of Jan Kochanowski).
  For this work Górnicki received a noble title from King Sigismund, as well as the Ogończyk coat of arms in 1561.
caption: Title page of Dworzanin polski
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