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Janus Pannonius (Latin: Janus Pannonius, Hungarian: János Csezmicei or Kesencei, Croatian: Ivan Česmički), was a Hungarian-Croatian humanist, poet (all in latin), diplomat and Bishop of Pécs. He was the only truly significant poet of the Renaissance in the Kingdom of Hungary and one of the better-known figures of Humanist poetry in Europe. He was born on 29 August 1434 in a small village near the Drava in a corner of Slavonia that was part of Hungarian kingdom. Janus’s father was a Croatian nobleman, but little is known about his family background. His mother, Borbála Vitéz, was the sister of Archbishop Vitéz. Pannonius was brought up by his mother; then 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 young boy was considered the brightest pupil of his generation by both his teachers and fellow-students. He soon revealed his ability to write 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, and 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 became the Bishop of Pécs and later Vice-Chancellor of the country. Janus Pannonius was thus an influential intellectual in the country, and one who never severed his connections with the leading Italian Humanists. Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ...
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Pécs (Latin: Quinque Ecclesiae, Croatian: PeÄuh, German: Fünfkirchen, Serbian: PeÄuj or Печуј, Slovak: Päťkostolie, Turkish: Peçuy, Italian: Cinquechiese) is the fourth largest city of Hungary, located in the south-west of the country. ...
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Coat of arms Slavonia (Croatian: Slavonija) is a geographical and historical region in eastern Croatia. ...
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