prodromus reginae artium 86 bassador8 actually ever reached France and was made available to people interested in the theory of eloquence. On the other hand, we know that a copy of PRA found its way to Italy, to a Piarist, Fr. Charles of St. Anthony, the nephew of Pope Alexander VII. The work was given recognition, aroused well-deserved admiration, and received an acknowledgment in the form of an epigram published later in the collection entitled Musae Ancomitanae sive Epigrammaton libri quattuor, Romae, 1674, (p. 245). The Latin text of this epigram was quoted by Casimir Krzyżanowski, MIC, in his Stanislaus a Jesu Maria Papczyński, O. Imm. Conc. (1631–1701), magister studii perfectionis, Romae 1963. After the dedication, Fr. Papczyński placed a Foreword (Candido Lectori), which is the same in the first and second editions. The second edition, dedicated to Jerome and Alexander [Michael] Lubomirski, had the following title: “Messenger of the Queen of the Arts or Training Students in Skillful Speech-making, by Stanislaus of Jesus and Mary of the Pious Schools. With the permission of the superiors. 2nd extended edition. [Printed] in 8 The question comes to mind: When did the author have a chance to encoun- ter Antoine de Lumbres personally? It is possible that it might have taken place as early as 1660–1662, as Fr. Stanislaus was transferred to Rzeszów and took the position of a preacher and teacher of rhetoric there. It was there that he met the Lubomirski family as a teacher of Jerome August (born ca. 1647) and Aleksander Michael (born 1643/46). Meeting Ambassador Antoine de Lumbres could have happened at the Lubomirskis’ Rzeszów residence during some family event. Earlier, the French ambassadors used to visit the Lubomirskis’ residences in Wiśnicz, Rzeszów, and possibly in Lubowla. However, it is most likely that Papczyński’s meeting with Ambassador A. de Lumbres occurred only in 1663, or the year of the first edition of Prodromus, when Papczyński was transferred to Warsaw and became a confessor, preacher, and teacher of the Piarist youth (confessarius, concionator et nostrorum magister). Antoine de Lumbres could have been listening to his Latin sermons and could have been one of Fr. Stanislaus’ penitents along with the Bishop of Płock, John Gembicki, and other famous people such as the then Grand Crown Ensign, senator and Grand Crown Hetman John Sobieski or the Apostolic Nuncio Antonio Pignatelli, later Pope Innocent XII. De Lumbres mediated during the Polish–Swedish negotiations beginning in January 1660 and contributed to the conclusion of the peace treaty in Oliwa (May 3, 1660), which ended the Second Northern War.
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