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The article is not so much a review as a dispute with the main assumption of Wojciech Tygielski, who maintains that by their work in Poland in the 16th and 17th centuries the Italian immigrants deprived the country of a chance for modernization and that the Italians' predominance in many professions was, in a way, conducive to the backwardness of the nobility in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth,...