{{Short description|1568 book by Wawrzyniec Goślicki}} {{italic title}} thumb|''The Counsellor'', an English translation published in 1598 '''''De optimo senatore''''' (also '''''The Counsellor''''' and '''''The Accomplished Senator''''') was a book written by Wawrzyniec Goślicki (known in Latin as Goslicius), The book was first published in Venice in 1568, later republished in Basel (1593),<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ByYX7L8eK0IC Laurentii Grimalii Goslicij ''De optimo senatore libri duo: in quibus ...''] Text in Google Books</ref> and then translated into English and published in 1598 and in 1607.
Written in Latin and dedicated to the Polish King Sigismund II Augustus, the book describes the ideal statesman who is well versed in the humanities, as well as in economy, politics, and law. This theoretical treatise on the art of ruling postulated the importance of the senate as a body mediating between the monarch's absolute tendencies and noblemen's attempts to acquire more power.<ref>[http://www.staropolska.gimnazjum.com.pl/ang/renaissance/goslicki.php3 Wawrzyniec Goślicki The Accomplished Senator Page] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070712051747/http://www.staropolska.gimnazjum.com.pl/ang/renaissance/goslicki.php3 |date=2007-07-12 }}, Retrieved August 5, 2007</ref>
It was a political and social classic, widely read at the time of its publication.<ref>[http://ise.uvic.ca/Library/Criticism/shakespearein/poland2.html Bałuk, T., "De optimo senatore" Wawrzynca Goslickiego I jego oddzialywanie w Anglii (Wawrzyniec Goslicki's "De optimo sentore" and Its Reception in England'). Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Jagiellonian University, 1979.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061125094358/http://ise.uvic.ca/Library/Criticism/shakespearein/poland2.html |date=2006-11-25 }}, Retrieved August 5, 2007. Bałuk-Ulewiczowa, Teresa. ''Goslicius' Ideal Senator and His Impact over the Centuries. Shakespearen Reflections''. Kraków: PAU & UJ, 2009. Bałuk-Ulewiczowa, Teresa. "The Senator of Wawrzyniec Goślicki and the Elisabethan Counsellor." ''The Polish Renaissance in Its European Context'', ed. S. Fiszman, Bloomington & Indianapolis, Ind.: University of Indiana Press, 1988, pp.258-277.</ref>
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# Aleksander Stępkowski (red.) [https://books.google.com/books?id=kbs9nI9Z-ZIC&q=%22o+senatorze+doskona%C5%82ym+studia%22 O senatorze doskonałym studia] Warszawa, Kancelaria Senatu 2009. # Teresa Bałuk-Ulewiczowa, ''Goslicius' Ideal Senator and His Impact over the Centuries: Shakespearean Reflections''. Kraków, PAU i UJ 2009.
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