Language Latin Originally published 1519 Genre History Subject History of Poland | Publication date 1519, 1521 Publisher Hieronymus Vietor Country Poland | |
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Similar Gesta principum Polonorum, Łaski's Statute, Polish Biographical Dictionary, On the Revolutions | ||
Chronica Polonorum (Latin: Polish Chronicle, Polish: Kronika polska) by Maciej Miechowita is a treaty about Polish history and geography written in Latin by a Polish renaissance scholar, professor of Jagiellonian University, historian, geographer, royal physician of king Zygmunt I the Old and astrologer, Maciej of Miechów. Chronica Polonorum was first published in 1519.
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The Chronicle describes the history of Poland. It is based on the earlier work of Jan Długosz, supplementing its content with the events leading to the accession of Sigismund the Old to the throne. Although the first edition of the Chronicle was published in 1519, it was confiscated by the authorities. As a result of the intervention of the Senate some passages have been removed, others deeply revised, because a number of nobles felt offended by the hostile description of their ancestors. The book was republished in 1521 without the offending passages about Jagiellons and the Primate Jan Łaski. The Chronicle by Miechowita became a seminal source of data used in the creation of further chronicles by Bernard Wapowski and Marcin Kromer, the author of De origine et rebus GESTIS Polonorum. Miechowita had his Chronica Polonorum republished by printer Hieronim Wietor of Kraków. A supplementary treaty in three volumes written by Ludwik Decjusz (Louis Decius) was added to it as De vetustatibus Polonorum liber I, De Iagellonum familia liber II, and De Sigismundi regis temporibus liber III.