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Il Rinascimento polacco: un'opportunità perduta per un rinnovamento culturale?

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A massive Polish presence in Italy, particularly during the 16th and 17th century, is the fact often referred to when the roots of Polish humanist culture is under discussion. Indeed, Poland has been the only state in Central and Eastern Europe which absorbed on a larger scale the ideals of the Renaissance. However, the assimilation of Italian culture was the case, as it seems, in just a certain number of students, particularly those who had contacts with the University of Padova and the culture which flourished in the Republic of Venice. The element that distinguished the Poles from the others was the idea of struggle, mainly spiritual struggle, in connection with the post-Tridentine culture. A remarkable testimony to the longevity of this kind of Renaissance sensibility is a still vivid conviction that makes a considerable number of Poles see in their homeland a stronghold of Western culture.