Thought of as Europe's most famous Latin poet of the 1600s, this Polish Jesuit went to the Jesuit school in Braniewo as a student and later visited Pułtusk alongside other well-known poets like Jan Kochanowski. Which Polish churchman-poet, later crowned Poet Laureate by a Pope, is being described?

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Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski. Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595-1640) went to the Jesuit school in Braniewo as a student and later visited Pultusk alongside other well-known poets like Jan Kochanowski. He wrote polished Latin poems in the style of Horace, and Pope Urban VIII crowned him Poet Laureate in Rome.