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Manorial Jurisdictions (2808 words) |
 | The Gostautas family owned the property at least from the 1430s to 1537, the year that Stanislas Gostautas was married to Barbara Radziwill in a dynastic marriage designed to reconcile the two largest most powerful noble families in the land. |
| Barbara had grown up in the area; her family estate in Nesvizh was a stone castle just built in the 1500s to replace an older wooden palace of the 1400s. |
| Barbara Radziwill went down in history as the great love of her second husbandÂ’s life King Sigismund Augustus, (he became king shortly after their marriage). |
| CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Polish Literature (5011 words) |
| The prose writers of this period are also inferior to their predecessors, the historians being the best, and the best among the historians, Lubienski and Biasecki, were perhaps worthy successors to those of former times. |
| Felinski's "Barbara" deserves mention as a successful play, and the actors who played it were better than had ever been seen in Poland. |
| Romanticism was yet to come, but it had a forerunner in Brodzinski, who, though somewhat stereotyped in his diction, was nevertheless familiar with German poetry and tended to simplicity of thought, seeking his inspiration where the Romantics were wont to seek it. |
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