Antonio Bonfini
1427
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1502,1503
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Papal States
occupation: poet, heraldist, biographer, Renaissance humanist, historian
Antonio Bonfini (Latin variant: Antonius Bonfinius) (1427‒1502) was an Italian humanist and poet serving as a court historian in Hungary under King Matthias Corvinus during the last years of his career.Bonfini was commissioned by Matthias Corvinus to produce a work chronicling the History of Hungary. The book was named Historia Pannonica: Sive Hungaricarum Rerum Decades IV. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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