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Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary. Bibliotheca Corviniana was one of the most renowned libraries of the Renaissance world, established by Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, in Buda Castle between 1458 and 1490. The books were stolen and taken to Istanbul after the Hungarian defeat by the Ottomans in the Battle of Mohács in 1526.
Matthias Corvinus of Hungary (1443–90) created the Bibliotheca Corviniana, in its day one of Europe’s finest libraries. After his death, and especially after the conquest of Buda by the Turks in 1541, the library was dispersed and much of the collection was destroyed, with the surviving volumes scattered all over Europe.
Matthias started the systematic collection of books after the arrival of his first librarian, Martius Galeotti, a friend of Janus Pannonius from Ferrara in around 1465. [ 255 ] [ 256 ] The exchange of letters between Taddeo Ugoleto , who succeeded Marzio in 1471, and Francesco Bandini contributed to the development of the royal library because ...
At the beginning of his historical work, Ranzano delivers an oratory speech to the royal couple, Matthias and Beatrice, depicting the royal portraiture, ruler virtues, morals and qualities of Matthias. The author develops the Corvinus' origin myth, claiming that the king descends from that Roman gens named Corvinus, who were settled by ...
Republics and Kingdoms Compared is a Socratic dialogue set in the court of King Mattias Corvinus of Hungary. The work depicts a debate between the king himself, his illegitimate son Prince János (John Corvinus), and Florentine knight and merchant Domenico Giugni.
The epithet Corvinus was coined by Matthias' biographer, the Italian Antonio Bonfini, who claimed that the Hunyadi family descended from Marcus Valerius Corvinus. The Hungarian legend relates that when a raven carried off the ring King Matthias had removed from his finger he chased the bird down and slew him retrieving the ring, and in ...
A contemporaneous sculpture of Matthias Corvinus. Matthias, the younger son of John Hunyadi the elder and Elizabeth Szilágyi, was born on 23 February 1443. [55] He was arrested upon the orders of King Ladislaus V of Hungary on 14 March 1457, together with his elder brother Ladislaus. [54] Matthias's brother was executed two days after having ...
Matthias Corvinus as depicted in Chronica Hungarorum by Johannes de Thurocz The Báthory family was a powerful and influential Hungarian noble family from the 14th to 17th century. The two branches of the family produced many voivodes, Transylvanian princes and a king, ( Stephen Báthory of Poland ).