Łukasz Górnicki’s Droga do zupełnej wolności - a pro-Venetian proposal of a political reform from the XVIth century

Abstract

The article presents the proposal of a political reform of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth at the end of the XVIth century, made by Łukasz Górnicki in his treatise Droga do zupełnej wolności. Górnicki – like many other writers in Poland and in Europe – follows the example of Venice, which he considers the ideal of a well-ordered republic. The analysis of problems of Rzeczpospolita as well as the solutions he offers, are one of the most interesting expressions of the Polish political thought in the Renaissance.