Skarga, Piotr (1536-1612) Vpominanie do Ewanyelikow, y do Wszystkich Spolem Nie Kátholikow.
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Skarga, Piotr (1536-1612)
Vpominanie do Ewanyelikow, y do Wszystkich Spolem Nie Kátholikow. Krakow: J.M. y Koscielney Lazarzowey, 1592.First edition, quarto, woodcut printer's device to title, gothic letter, contemporary marginal notes, limp paste-paper wrappers; some discoloration to final few leaves, dog-eared corners, 7 1/2 x 6 in.This polemical tract written in vernacular Polish by the Jesuit and Counter-Reformation hagiographer concerns itself with the 1591 Catholic desecration of the Lutheran Church of St. John in Krakow. As an apologist for others of his faith, Skarga [sometimes Poweski] minimizes the attack, and blames the victims, looking instead to the desecration of Catholic churches in Lithuania by Protestants.Rare at auction; Worldcat locates copies only at Polish libraries.
Vpominanie do Ewanyelikow, y do Wszystkich Spolem Nie Kátholikow. Krakow: J.M. y Koscielney Lazarzowey, 1592.First edition, quarto, woodcut printer's device to title, gothic letter, contemporary marginal notes, limp paste-paper wrappers; some discoloration to final few leaves, dog-eared corners, 7 1/2 x 6 in.This polemical tract written in vernacular Polish by the Jesuit and Counter-Reformation hagiographer concerns itself with the 1591 Catholic desecration of the Lutheran Church of St. John in Krakow. As an apologist for others of his faith, Skarga [sometimes Poweski] minimizes the attack, and blames the victims, looking instead to the desecration of Catholic churches in Lithuania by Protestants.Rare at auction; Worldcat locates copies only at Polish libraries.
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