This book addresses the teaching and cultural activities of the Akademia Zamojska in the Early Modern Age. The main subject is the development of politics as a university discipline in this school and its relations with philosophical teaching.

Valentina Lepri is Professor of History of Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. After obtaining a PhD from the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento, Florence, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel and at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies - Villa i Tatti, working on the manipulation of Niccolò Machiavelli's and Francesco Guicciardini's texts. More recently, she has been awarded a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 programme. Her monographs and articles explore the forms of knowledge production and dissemination in the Early Modern Age, with special reference to late sixteenth-century philosophical and political issues.