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"Fuggire in boscaglia oscura". Osservazioni sul contrasto tra città e campagna nella Polonia rinascimentale

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Deep understanding of the notion concerning the opposition between cultural world represented by the city and nature connected with the life in the country was captured in Titians painting from 1511 depicting St. Anthonys miracle, taking place at the meeting of those two spaces. This sophisticated contrast, characteristic of the Italian Renaissance, was not reflected in Poland where the cities and their court culture were less representative. Mass contact of Polish students, visiting particularly Padua in the Renaissance, with the culture of Venetian villas, had a great impact mainly on ideological attempts to reflect humanistic models present in literaturę, art and lifestyle developing at that time in Italy. The article presents numerous examples of such inspirations showing their uniqueness and the adjustment of Italian models to the realities of different world of imagination and sensitivity.