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Volume 10: Issue 1
“Excitata Est Ea Natio Ante Paucos Annos Singulari et Eleganti Ingenio Matthiae Regis”: Il Viaggio Del Volterrano in Ungheria
Author:
Enrica Budetta The Johns Hopkins University Department of German and Romance Languages and Literatures Gilman Hall 330 3400 N. Charles Street Baltimore MD 21218 USA

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Pages:
51–66
Online Publication Date:
10 Jul 2008
Publication Date:
01 Jun 2008
Article Category:
Journal Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/verb.10.2008.1.4
Keywords:
trip; Hungary; Raffaele Maffei; Giovanni d’Aragona; Matthias Corvinus; Florio Banfi
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During the winter of 1479–1480, Pope Sixtus IV determined that humanist Raffaele Maffei from Volterra (1451–1522) should join the cardinal Giovanni d’Aragona, who had been sent as papal legate to Matthias Corvinus’s court. This paper illustrates Maffei’s impressions of his trip, as they emerge in a published but little known letter addressed to his friend Niccolò Lisci, as well as in the eighth book of his famous encyclopedia, the Commentarii Urbani . Although the Hungarians’ bellicose nature and their Spartan habits impressed the Italian humanist, Maffei was truly amazed by the incredible cultural flourishing of the Corvinian court.

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1585-079X
Online ISSN:
1588-4309

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