M. Kot Publishing House, “Library of Masterpieces of Poetry and Prose” series, No. 53, Kraków, 1950, p. 128, dimensions 15 x 21 cm, softcover, with a handwritten note by Prof. Tadeusz Ulewicz on the half-title page, in good condition, table of contents pasted in upside down.
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 “Meritorious to Culture – Gloria Artis.”
He held the title of Grand Orator—the Venerable Golden-Tongued—in the Revived Knightly Order of Bibliophiles in Kraków.
“It is well known that there are outstanding professors, but there are also legendary professors. Undoubtedly, Professor Tadeusz Ulewicz is such a legend [...] I would like to draw attention to yet other qualities of the professor, namely his patriotism and his extraordinary integrity and honesty”—Professor Lucjan Suchanek.
