The article presents the academic profile of the so-called School of Padua (Scuola Padovana) against the background of general information about the Italian pedagogical thought and its diverse achievements in various universities. The basis of the presentation is the contribution to the pedagogical sciences made by the authors of a monographic issue of the “Rassegna di Pedagogia” journal, which is the oldest pedagogical journal in the world, founded in 1941 by Professor Giuseppe Flores d’Arcais, the creator and animator of personalist pedagogy in Padua (pedagogia della persona). In the light of works published in the “Rassegna...”, the proposal inspired by the Italian Renaissance tradition and European humanism is both a continuation of research studies conducted in this environment and a result of inspiration drawn from outside the Italian intellectual circles. The authors refer to the French personalist thought, to the German hermeneutics and philosophy of Bildung and to the Polish neo-Marxist humanism open to the sociohistorical horizons of thinking about the man and his alternative potentiality. This last area of mutually inspiring collaboration is connected with Professor Bogdan Suchodolski’s long academic presence in Padua. Professor Suchodolski was awarded an honorary doctorate at the University of Padua in 1983; it was the first such title awarded by this institution to a foreign scholar in the field of education. In addition to general theoretical foundations of personalism, the account of achievements discussed in the “Rassegna...” includes also original areas of study on the permanent presence of classical philosophical and pedagogical thought and on the pedagogy of literature and children and youth readership. The research circles of Padua pedagogy – as documented in the text – consistently apply the principle of continuity in the implementation of the research programme and the principle of dialogue and openness as well as cooperation with cultural ideas other than their own. Padua personalism still achieves new paradigms; it becomes a dynamic concept combining respect for the roots with a creative mobility of thought.
The article presents the academic profile of the so-called School of Padua (Scuola Padovana) against the background of general information about the Italian pedagogical thought and its diverse achievements in various universities. The basis of the presentation is the contribution to the pedagogical sciences made by the authors of a monographic issue of the “Rassegna di Pedagogia” journal, which is the oldest pedagogical journal in the world, founded in 1941 by Professor Giuseppe Flores d’Arcais, the creator and animator of personalist pedagogy in Padua (pedagogia della persona). In the light of works published in the “Rassegna...”, the proposal inspired by the Italian Renaissance tradition and European humanism is both a continuation of research studies conducted in this environment and a result of inspiration drawn from outside the Italian intellectual circles. The authors refer to the French personalist thought, to the German hermeneutics and philosophy of Bildung and to the Polish neo-Marxist humanism open to the sociohistorical horizons of thinking about the man and his alternative potentiality. This last area of mutually inspiring collaboration is connected with Professor Bogdan Suchodolski’s long academic presence in Padua. Professor Suchodolski was awarded an honorary doctorate at the University of Padua in 1983; it was the first such title awarded by this institution to a foreign scholar in the field of education. In addition to general theoretical foundations of personalism, the account of achievements discussed in the “Rassegna...” includes also original areas of study on the permanent presence of classical philosophical and pedagogical thought and on the pedagogy of literature and children and youth readership. The research circles of Padua pedagogy – as documented in the text – consistently apply the principle of continuity in the implementation of the research programme and the principle of dialogue and openness as well as cooperation with cultural ideas other than their own. Padua personalism still achieves new paradigms; it becomes a dynamic concept combining respect for the roots with a creative mobility of thought.
The author of this article made a synthetic presentation of the results of the research of Polish and Italian historiography (based on the surveys into the primary sources) regarding the sojourn and study of Klemens Janicki at the University of Padua. Preserved doctoral diploma and poetic laurels bestowed upon the poet at the same time allowed the reconstruction of the course of this ceremony and identification of its participants. Academic atmosphere of Padua was presented in the article, including its prominent representatives: lawyers, philosophers and physicians, as well as the group of Polish students from the first half of the sixteenth century.
Among the educational destinations chosen by the citizens of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Padua occupied a prominent position. This was primarily due to the city’s esteemed university, situated along the Bacchiglione canal. Serving as the principal intellectual hub of the Venetian Republic, the university had attracted distinguished scholars for centuries. In the 16th and 17th centuries, it was especially the university’s medical studies that became popular among those seeking to boast a comprehensive education, acquired under the tutelage of Europe’s finest minds. Aspiring medical practitioners and members of noble families alike flocked to the City of Antenor, as Padua was called, in pursuit of erudition and cosmopolitan refinement. This article aims to elucidate the multifaceted dimensions of these sojourns in Padua, which exerted direct or indirect influences on the transformations in the broadly understood health culture of the Polish-Lithuanian territories.
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Wśród celów podróży edukacyjnych obywateli I Rzeczypospolitej Padwa zajmowała miejsce szczególne. Przyczyną tego był przede wszystkim funkcjonujący w mieście nad kanałem Bacchiglione uniwersytet, stanowiący główny ośrodek naukowy Republiki Weneckiej, który przez dziesięciolecia przyciągał znamienitych uczonych. W XVI i XVII stuleciu zwłaszcza studia medyczne na padewskiej uczelni stały się pragnieniem wszystkich, którzy chcieli szczycić się gruntownym wykształceniem, zdobytym pod okiem najtęższych umysłów ówczesnej Europy. Do miasta, zwanego Grodem Antenora, przybywali zarówno adepci sztuki lekarskiej, jak i żądni światowego obycia członkowie rodów szlacheckich. W artykule podjęto próbę wskazania różnych aspektów owych pobytów w Padwie, które bezpośrednio lub pośrednio mogły wpływać na przemiany zachodzące w obszarze szeroko pojmowanej kultury zdrowotnej na ziemiach polsko-litewskich.
During the 16th and 17th centuries, European universities emerged as alluring educational institutions for students, thanks to their outstanding professors and progressive pedagogical approaches. Notably, Italian universities offered not only attractive academic programs but also a plethora of scholarships and waivers, thereby further enhancing their appeal. The continuously expanding University of Padua was particularly attractive for aspiring students from Silesia, who predominantly enrolled in the German Artistic or Juristic faculties. The matriculation records of these academic divisions feature a number of prominent names, such as Angelus Silesius, Laurentius Scholz, and Joachim Cureus, whose careers, as evidenced by their biographies, were greatly influenced by their participation in the transformative Grand Tour.
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Europejskie uniwersytety w XVI i XVII wieku przyciągały studentów wybitną kadrą profesorską oraz nowoczesnymi metodami kształcenia. Uczelnie włoskie proponowały młodzieży nie tylko ciekawy program zajęć, lecz także różnego rodzaju stypendia i zwolnienia z opłat. Stale rozbudowująca się uczelnia w Padwie była atrakcyjna również dla studentów z terenu Śląska, którzy najczęściej zapisywali się na uniwersytet, wybierając nację niemiecką artystów lub jurystów. W księgach immatrykulacyjnych wspomnianych nacji można odnaleźć nazwiska m.in.: Angelusa Silesiusa, Laurentiusa Scholza czy też Joachima Cureusa, których życiorysy są potwierdzeniem ogromnego wpływu Grand Tour na rozwój kariery.