Janus Pannonius

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.

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.

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.

[5] After making an educational tour of Rome, he returned to Hungary in 1458, the year of Matthias's accession to the throne.

[5] János Zsambóky (Johannes Sambucus)[8] and Count Sámuel Teleki[9] prepared the first editions of the poet’s opera omnia.