Janus Pannonius
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Janus Pannonius (Template:Langx or Script error: No such module "Lang"., Template:Langx, Template:Langx; 29 August 1434 – 27 March 1472) was an influential intellectual in the Kingdom of Hungary, a Latinist, poet, diplomat and Bishop of Pécs. He was the most significant poet of the Renaissance in the Kingdom of Hungary and one of the better-known figures of humanist poetry in Europe.
Life
Born in Slavonia,Template:Sfn[1] Janus's father's social status and relation to the nobility is unclear.Template:Sfn His mother, Borbála Vitéz, was the sister of John Vitéz.
Pope Pius II wrote that Pannonius was of Slavonian origin (de origine Slavonica). His biographer and friend Vespasiano da Bisticci said that he was of Slavic nationality. According to Ronsano of Palermo, he was from Dalmatia (di natione Dalmata). M. Franičević, in citing Ronsano, notes that many Italians saw all “Croats” as Dalmatians. Ludovik Tuberon Crijević, writing of Pannonius, says that he was born a Slav (genere itidem Sclavenum) in that part of interior Dalmatia that lies between the Sava and Drava rivers.Template:Sfn
Pannonius was brought up by his mother; in 1447 his uncle sent him to Italy for a humanist schooling. He attended the School of Guarino da Verona at Ferrara, where the pupils were educated in Latin and Greek authors under the guidance of a noted teacher of the Italian Renaissance. The boy was considered the brightest pupil of his generation by both his teachers and fellow-students. He wrote poetry according to the rules of classical prosody; he was around thirteen when he wrote his first epigrams. His higher education was completed at the University of Padua in canon law.[2] After making an educational tour of Rome, he returned to Hungary in 1458, the year of Matthias's accession to the throne.
For a time, he worked at the Royal Chancery, and soon was appointed as the Bishop of Pécs and later Vice-Chancellor of the country. Janus Pannonius was an influential intellectual in the kingdom; he kept his connections with some of the leading philosophers of his time. He also collected a significant library of humanist works (probably dispersed in 1526).[3]
He served as the Ban of Slavonia in 1469.Template:Sfn
He died in the Medvedgrad castle near Zagreb.[2]
János Zsambóky (Johannes Sambucus)[4] and Count Sámuel Teleki[5] prepared the first editions of the poet’s opera omnia.[6]
References
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- ↑ Ádám Makkai, In quest of the 'miracle stag': the poetry of Hungary : an anthology of Hungarian poetry in English translation from the 13th century to the present in commemoration of the 1100th anniversary of the foundation of Hungary and the 40th anniversary of the Hungarian Uprising of 1956, University of Illinois Press, 1996, p. 41
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- ↑ Jani Pannonii episcopi quinqueeccles: illius antiquis vatibus comparandi, recentioribus arte anteponendi, quae usipam reperiri adhuc potuerunt omnia opera Joannis Sambuci, ed. Johannes Sambucus (János Zsámboky), Vienna 1569.
- ↑ Ianni Pannonii Poemata quae uspiam reperiri potuerunt omnia, ed. S. Teleki, Utrecht 1784. A facsimile edition: Jani Pannonii Opera omnia, ed. P. Koőszeghy et al., Budapest 2002.
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Sources
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- Lombana Sánchez, A. (2024). Un libro sobre Janus Pannonius. Escolar. ISBN: 978-84-19782-33-5.
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Works
- Opera, Basel, 1555
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- 1432 births
- 1472 deaths
- 15th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Hungary
- 15th-century writers in Latin
- 15th-century Croatian poets
- 15th-century Croatian nobility
- Hungarian male poets
- Hungarian people of Croatian descent
- Baranya (region)
- History of Baranya (region)
- People from Čazma
- Bishops of Pécs
- Royal treasurers (Kingdom of Hungary)
- Chief justices of Hungary
- Hungarian book and manuscript collectors
- Croatian male poets
- 15th-century Hungarian poets