Łukasz Górnicki wrote at a period when the terms of literature itself were being argued over.
The record lists Łukasz Górnicki as Polish noble and writer.
Łukasz Górnicki was born at Oświęcim in 1527. His recorded nationality is Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was educated at Jagiellonian University and University of Padua.
Printing had made an author reachable by readers who would never meet them, and vernacular languages were displacing Latin.
He worked as poet, librarian and translator.
The writing is recorded in Polish.
Books outlive their reviews, and the ones that last are seldom the ones that sold best.
That the work was written from Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth matters: language, censorship and the reach of a publishing industry decide which books travel and which stay local.
Łukasz Górnicki died in 1603, aged 76. The books remain, which is the only durable form a writing life takes.
