Antonio Bonfini (1427-1503) Italian humanist and poet who spent the last years of his career as a court historian in Hungary with King Matthias Corvinus. His history of Hungary spans from 363 to 1496, however he is though to have embellished most of Hungary's history in this period. Matthias Corvinus (Mátyás in Hungarian), (February 23, 1443 (?) - April 6, 1490) was one of the greatest Kings of Hungary, ruling between 1458 and 1490. ...
Matthias was born in Kolozsvár (present-day Cluj-Napoca) in Transylvania in 1443, the second son of John Hunyadi, a successful Hungarian military leader of Vlach ancestry, who had risen through the ranks of the nobility to become regent of Hungary.
The later epithet Corvinus was coined by Matthias' biographer, the Italian AntonioBonfini, who claimed that the Hunyadi family (whose coat of arms depicts a raven—corvus in Latin) descended from the ancient Roman gens of the Corvini.
Matthias was educated in Italian, and his fascination with the achievements of the Italian Renaissance led to the promotion of Mediterranean cultural influences in Hungary.
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