Ignacy Błażej Franciszek Krasicki, from 1766 Prince-Bishop of Warmia and from 1795 Archbishop of Gniezno, was Poland's leading Enlightenment poet, a critic of the clergy, Poland's La Fontaine, author of the first Polish novel, playwright, journalist, encyclopedist, and translator from French and Greek.
Portrait by Per Krafft the Elder, c. 1768
Castle of the bishops of Warmia at Lidzbark Warmiński
Summer palace of the bishops of Warmia at Smolajny
Warmia is both a historical and an ethnographic region in northern Poland, forming part of historical Prussia. Its historic capitals were Frombork and Lidzbark Warmiński and the largest city is Olsztyn.
Image: Zamek Olsztyn (2)
Image: Lidzbark Warmiński 02
Image: Bazylika archikatedralna
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