''De optimo senatore'' (also ''The Counsellor'' and ''The Accomplished Senator'') was a book by

Wawrzyniec Goślicki Wawrzyniec Goślicki ( la, Laurentius Grimaldius Goslicius; between 1530 and 154031 October 1607) was a Polish nobleman, Bishop of Poznań (1601–1607), political thinker and philosopher best known for his book '' De optimo senatore'' (1568). ...

(known in Latin as Goslicius) published in

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in 1568, republished in

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(1593), and then translated into English and published in 1598 and in 1607. Written in

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and dedicated to a

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King

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, the book describes the ideal statesman who is well versed in the humanities, as well as in economy, politics, and law. This theoretical treatise on the art of ruling postulated the importance of the senate as a body mediating between the monarch's absolute tendencies and noblemen's attempts to acquire more power. It was a political and social classic, widely read at the time of its publication.Bałuk, T., "De optimo senatore" Wawrzynca Goslickiego I jego oddzialywanie w Anglii (Wawrzyniec Goslicki's "De optimo sentore" and Its Reception in England'). Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Jagiellonian University, 1979.
, Retrieved August 5, 2007. Bałuk-Ulewiczowa, Teresa. ''Goslicius' Ideal Senator and His Impact over the Centuries. Shakespearen Reflections''. Kraków: PAU & UJ, 2009. Bałuk-Ulewiczowa, Teresa. "The Senator of Wawrzyniec Goślicki and the Elisabethan Counsellor." ''The Polish Renaissance in Its European Context'', ed. S. Fiszman, Bloomington & Indianapolis, Ind.: University of Indiana Press, 1988, pp.258-277.

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Warszawa, Kancelaria Senatu 2009. # Teresa Bałuk-Ulewiczowa, ''Goslicius' Ideal Senator and His Impact over the Centuries: Shakespearean Reflections''. Kraków, PAU i UJ 2009.
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