Bonfini, Antonio

Bonfini, Antonio

▪ Italian humanist
born c. 1434, Ascoli Piceno, Italy
died 1503, Buda [now Budapest], Hung.

      Italian humanist (humanism) who was the court historian for Matthias I, the king of Hungary.

      Bonfini went to Buda for the first time in 1486, at the invitation of Matthias. At first he served as reader to Queen Beatrix. Later Matthias commissioned him to write Hungary's history from the time of the Huns. Bonfini's great work, Rerum Hungaricum Decades (“Ten Volumes of Hungarian Matters”), was incomplete at Matthias's death in 1490 and was finished at the urging of Vladislas II. Its first full publication was in Basel, Switzerland, in 1568, while Gáspár Heltai's Hungarian version, Chronika az magyarok viselt dolgairól (1575; “Chronicle of the Hungarians' Past Deeds”), was printed in Kolozsvár, Transylvania (now Cluj, Rom.). With this work, long considered definitive, and his other writings and translations, Bonfini exerted a powerful influence on Hungarian historiography. Vladislas made him a nobleman in recognition of his work.

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