Tabla de Contenidos: “…Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures and Tables -- Abstract -- Keywords -- 1 Introduction -- 1.1 A Bestseller out of the Blue -- 1.2 Current State of Research on Pia desideria -- 1.3 Polish Research on the Reception of Hugo's Collection -- 1.4 Study Concept and Layout -- 2 Pia desideria: The Anatomy of Success -- 2.1 A Formula for a Bestselling Emblem Book with a Religious Theme -- 2.2 The Popularity of Pia desideria in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth -- 3 Adaptations of Pia desideria Based on Its Engravings -- 3.1 The Role of Devotional Engravings in Propagating Personal Piety -- 3.2 Two Adaptations Dedicated to Princess Katarzyna Radziwiłł née Sobieska -- 3.3 Subscriptions in Engravings of Prints -- 3.4 Subscriptions in Loose Engravings -- 3.5 The Artistic Reception of Engravings: A Reconnaissance -- 3.6 Conclusions -- 4 Translations of the Pia desideria Elegies -- 4.1 Publicity for the Genre at Jesuit Schools -- 4.2 Three Translations into Polish -- 5 Translations and Adaptations of Exegetical Excerpts from Pia desideria -- 5.1 The Demand for Translations of Treatises by the Doctors of the Church -- 5.2 Carmelite Provenance of Polish Adaptations -- 5.3 Translations of Excerpts -- 5.4 Teofila Zadzikowa's Adaptation: Pragnienia Dusze pobożnej (Desires of a Pious Soul) -- 6 Conclusions -- 6.1 Literary Circulations: Oppositions and Interpenetrations -- 6.2 Heterogeneity of Pia desideria in the Context of Its Different Reception Paths -- 6.3 Projected Models of Reception -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Bibliography -- Index…”

“…Published studies of the magnate's patronage of old Poland were usually limited to selected individuals, such as Elżbieta Sieniawska or Jan Klemens Branicki, or to members of one generation of the magnates, such as the Pacas family in the 17th century or the Radziwiłłs in the 18th century. The activities of the representatives of the Koniecpolski family are presented, with an extensive presentation of the undertakings of their most prominent figures at the time: Przedbor and Jan Koniecpolski, Chancellor of the Polish Kingdom in the mid-15th century. …”