MORAWSKI Kazimierz - Rome. Portraits and sketches (FIRST EDITION, 1921)

Kazimierz Morawski - Polish classical philologist, historian, professor and rector of the Jagiellonian University, president of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences, candidate for the office of President of the Republic of Poland. He was awarded the Order of the White Eagle. Kazimierz Morawski's academic interests included Roman rhetoric, Roman history and topography, Hellenism, Polish-Latin literature, Polish cultural history, and the history of Jagiellonian University. He enjoyed the fame of the world's most prominent expert on Roman rhetorical style.

"In the dust of the bibljotek and in the monuments of life and art, in the engraved stones and even in the strata of the earth, history today seeks light to illuminate the past of man; just as in the practical field, so in mental life there are multiplied efforts to double, intensify and multiply this light, so that with its help the researcher can penetrate through the innermost secrets of the soul of mankind and entire societies." (excerpt from the work)

Edition I

Published by Krakow Cooperative Publishing, Krakow 1921.
Format: 200 x 140 mm, 300 pages.

Book in good condition, with minor soiling, in hardback binding. A clean die-cut card in front of the pre-title page.