Lumen 2018

153 At the Piarist Fathers I.D. Alexandro Praefecto Pereiaslavien. Comitibus in Wisnicz, et Iaroslaw, Lubomirsciis, [...]. Secundam mei Prodromi edi- tionem Vestro nimini inscribo: [...] Pridem Vestrum fecistis hunc Prodromum, cum eum diligenti studio scriberetis, dili- gentiore perdisceretis, diligentissimo ad praxim deduceretis. Ergo notum Vobis, et natum apud Vos admittite in sinus Ve- stros, [...].” 144. Positio 60. 145. Ibid., 52. 146. Familia Domus Rsesoviensis 1661. [ca m. Oct.], Positio 54. 147. Positio 576. In the Polish translation by E. Jarra (from the 4 th edition) under the title of Introduction to the Queen of the Arts or an Outline of Knowledge for the Beginners in Rhetoric , Rome, 1960. Father Papczynski’s intention was for this textbook to precede the complete work entitled Regina Artium . (“Prodro- mum ipsa Regina sequi merito debebat,” Apologia § 52). The book was not published due to lack of assistance on the part of the superiors. Hence, the word Prodromus is best translated as Forerunner . 148. Lived in the 4 th century A.D., author of the work “Progymnasta rhetorica” which was used as a textbook even in the 17 th cen- tury. 149. He wrote Orator extemporaneus seu artis oratoriae breviarum bipartitum , Vilnius, 1640, a work which was very famous at that time. 150. Sydry 46. 151. PP f. 385: Prodromus Reginae Artium sive Informatio Tyronum Eloquentiae authore P. Stanislao a Jesu Maria Schol. Piar. Editio quarta Cracoviae (no date); Apologia § 51, Positio 275. 152. Prodromus, de II-a “Candido Lectori.”