Spółka Wydawnicza Polska, Kraków, 1907, p. 304, dimensions 13.5 x 20.5 cm, original cloth binding, gilt lettering on the spine, handwritten signature of Prof. Tadeusz Ulewicz, small provenance stamp “Stanisław Potoczek,” a “Biblioteka Szczepańskich” stamp on the last page, slight wear and soiling on the cover, minor soiling on the margin of the title page, loose page 15/16.
Tadeusz Ulewicz was born in 1917 in Radom and died in 2012 in Kraków. He was a literary historian and professor of Old Polish literature at Jagiellonian University. One of the foremost experts on the works of Jan Kochanowski, Old Polish printing, and Polish-Italian cultural ties. Author of over 500 scholarly dissertations.
He received honorary doctorates from the universities of Milan and Łódź. He was a member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Warsaw Scientific Society.
For his work, he was awarded the Commander’s Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta (2000), the Order of the Star of Italian Solidarity (Grande Ufficiale), the Medal of the National Education Commission, and the Gold Medal “For Merit to Culture—Gloria Artis.”
“It is well known that there are outstanding professors, but there are also legendary professors. Professor Tadeusz Ulewicz is undoubtedly such a legend [...] I would like to highlight some other qualities of the professor, namely his patriotism and his extraordinary integrity and honesty”—Professor Lucjan Suchanek.
