Goślicki, Wawrzyniec G. (ca. 1530–1607)

Long before the American and French Revolutions, a Polish bishop wrote one of Europe’s most radical defenses of limited government and the moral equality of citizens. In this episode, Walker Haskins discusses Wawrzyniec Goślicki’s The Accomplished Senator.

“He was hated and intrigued against by the reactionaries at court; they went so far as to open his mail, as if he had in actuality been a Jacobin.”