Notes on the Editors and Translators
Jerzy Fiećko
professor of Polish literature and Chair of Romantic Literature at the Institute of Polish Philology of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań in 2009–2017. His scholarly interests focus on Polish Romanticism, especially, the thought of Adam Mickiewicz and Zygmunt Krasiński as well as the history of political oppression and exile in the Russian Empire of the nineteenth century. He is an author of six monographs and numerous articles.
Mateusz Stróżyński
professor of Classics and philosophy at the Institute of Classical Philology of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He is interested in contemplation and spiritual exercises in the Platonic tradition, especially in the Neoplatonic metaphysics of Plotinus and Augustine as well as mediaeval Franciscan mysticism and its relation to heterodoxy in the thirteenth and fourteenth century.
Jaspreet Singh Boparai
trained initially as a classicist in Oxford. After that, he studied for his first MA at the Courtauld Institute of Art, focussing on mediaeval manuscripts. From there he studied for a second MA at the Warburg Institute in Renaissance intellectual history; this was followed by a doctorate from Cambridge in neo-Latin literature. His research interests include philology as well as classical reception in art and literature.