The process of learning foreign languages carries the pragmatic aspect of gaining knowledge of it. Such pragmatism is revealed not only in the purposes and immediate motivations of the possibility to use a foreign language as a tool, but also it shows the conscious study and analysis of the language itself, which is an organized process supported by teaching programmes. Learning Italian, both today as well as in the past, in most cases is the process of learning the second language, which takes place not only within the territory of The Apennine Peninsula. The history of teaching Italian in Europe reaches back to the beginnings of the language in Italy, where the first grammar books were written down and the common language {italiano volgare) started to displace the Latin. In many European countries scholars created the Italian grammars, in national languages or in Latin, which were at the same time the manuals for learning Italian. Also in Poland Italian became wide-spread, in particular in XV and XVI century, mostly because of the political and cultural relations between Poland and Italy. The following presentation gives a picture of the history of Italian language in Poland, and tells of the evolution of teaching methods and their influence on Polish grammar terminology.
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