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Scipione Piattoli ((:ʃiˈpjoːne ˈpjattoli); November 10, 1749 – April 12, 1809) was an Italian Catholic priest—a Piarist—an educator, writer and political activist, and a major figure of the Enlightenment in Poland. After ten years as a professor at the University of Modena in Italy, he migrated to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, where he became associated with several magnate families—the Potockis, Lubomirskis and Czartoryskis. He was a member of the Duchess Dorothea von Medem's court in Courland (Lithuania) and of King Stanisław August Poniatowski's court in the Commonwealth. Piattoli was politically active in Warsaw during and after the Four-Year Sejm (1788–92). He served as intermediary between the reformist Patriotic Party and King Stanisław August Poniatowski, and as an aide to the King (1789–93). He is best remembered for his participation in drafting the Constitution of May 3, 1791, a milestone act in the history of Polish political legislation. He was one of the organizers of the Kościuszko Insurrection against Russian influence in 1794, which was the last armed struggle to be held under the banners of the Commonwealth. After the Third Partition of Poland in 1795, Piattoli was interned by the Austrians for several years, together with another Polish activist of the Constitution movement, Hugo Kołłątaj. Freed in 1800, he worked several years with Polish and Russian statesman Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski in the service of Russia, before retiring to Courland. Piattoli was an inspiration to Leo Tolstoy, who based the figure of the Abbé Morio in ''War and Peace'' (1869) on him. He is also one of the figures immortalized in Jan Matejko's 1891 painting, ''Constitution of May 3, 1791.'' In his 1980 ten-page entry on Piattoli in the ''Polish Biographical Dictionary'', historian Emanuel Rostworowski notes that, “despite two Italian monographs (by A.D. Ancon and G. Bozzolato)”, Piattoli still awaits a definitive biography. ==Early life== Scipione Piattoli was born in Florence on November 10, 1749, to a family of painters (father, Gaetano Piattoli; mother, Maria Anna Bacherini; brother, Giuseppe Piattoli).〔 In 1763 he joined the Piarist order, taking the name Urban.〔 Some historians have questioned whether he ever took Holy Orders; in any case he was known for a rather secular lifestyle.〔〔 He taught rhetoric in Piarist schools in Messa and Corregio, and got his doctorate from the University of Florence.〔 From 1772 to 1782 he was a professor at the University of Modena, teaching religious history and Greek.〔 Soon he became involved in political activism, and in 1774 he published (anonymously) a brochure titled ''Saggio intorno al luogo del seppellire'', which focused on the issue of hygiene and burials near churches.〔 Also in 1774 he received permission to leave the Piarists, and resumed using the name Scipione.〔 He would, however, keep and use the title of "the priest" (''l'abbé'') for most of his life.〔 By the turn of the decade, Piattoli found himself in a faction that was losing in the politics of Modena, and decided to move, giving up his professorship in 1782.〔 Piattoli arrived in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth that year, as a tutor for the sons of Piotr Potocki, a member of the magnate Potocki family.〔 It was said in a contemporary account that his entire material wealth at that time was composed of a “sizable library”.〔 Piattoli ended his service with the Potocki family around 1784 due to personal disagreements with Pelagia Potocka and Maria Radziwiłł.〔 In the meantime, he became associated with the Lubomirski family—Izabela Lubomirska in particular—and through them befriended Stanisław Kostka Potocki and Grzegorz Piramowicz.〔 Through Potocki and Piramowicz he became a member of the Society for Elementary Books in 1784.〔 In the Society he was tasked with writing a textbook on the history of science.〔 Around that time he was also active in Warsaw freemasonry.〔 Piattoli traveled through Europe in the retinue of the Lubomirski family, including Izabela, and as a tutor of young Henryk Lubomirski.〔 During that time he developed extensive contacts at various European courts in Courland, Austria (Vienna), Italy (Turin) and France (Paris).〔〔 During his three-year stay in the Lubomirskis' Parisian residence, he was in touch with many important men of the Age of Enlightenment.〔 He met—often through another Florentinian, Filippo Mazzei—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, Luigi Landriani, Girolamo Lucchesini, and the Marquis de Condorcet.〔 He also corresponded with J. G. Herder.〔 In Poland, he developed close contacts with Ignacy Potocki and Julian Ursyn Niemcewicza.〔 From 1787 he also tutored Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, later an important politician in the Russian Empire, on whom Piattoli would retain significant influence.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Scipione Piattoli」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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