Zainteresowania czytelnicze Radziwiłów birżańskich w I połowie XVII wieku

Abstract

We can find out what were the farourite books of the Protestant line of the Radziwills on the basis of the letters left by those who were connected with the court of Birża. and through analysing the extant lists of those magnates’ book collections. The available sources tell us that the Radziwills particularly like to read books concerning history, military matters, or fortifications. They were also interested in religious problems, and they look care so that the merits of their family were properly reflected in the books that were published m the then huropc. The Lithuanian magnates were also interested in literature, they knew classical works 1 by Cicero. Horace. Terence, Tacitus), the poetry bv Kochanowski, and also contemporary, seventeenth centurv works.