Marcin Bielski

Life

• Zywoty Filosofow
• Kronika Swiata, from the earliest time down to his day, divided into six periods. This was the first important universal history published in the national idiom, and the first attempt at a comprehensive history of Poland, from 550 to 1580; in the second edition there is a reference to America. After the author's death the work was continued, rearranged, and brought down to the year 1597, under the title of Kronika Polska by his son Joachim, secretary to King Sigismund III
• Sprawa Rycerskiego, a treatise on military art, according to the Greek science of warfare, in eight parts. It contains valuable data about the Polish army and kindred subjects.

• Seym Majowy, descriptive of the degradation of Hungary, and an appeal to his countrymen to emulate a higher standard of life
• Seym Niewiesci,, analytical of the then existing political conditions in Poland
• Sen Maiowy
• Komedia Justina y Konstanciey