Janus Pannonius
Janus Pannonius (
Life
Born in
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.[4]
Pannonius was brought up by his mother; in 1447 his uncle sent him to Italy for a
For a time, he worked at the Royal Chancery, and soon was appointed as the
He served as the Ban of Slavonia in 1469.[7]
He died in the Medvedgrad castle near Zagreb.[5]
References
- ^ Birnbaum 1981, p. 10.
- ^ a b 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
- ^ Birnbaum 1981, p. 18.
- ^ V. A. Fine 2010, p. 147.
- ^ a b Milorad Živančević (1971). Živan Milisavac (ed.). Jugoslovenski književni leksikon [Yugoslav Literary Lexicon] (in Serbo-Croatian). Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia): Matica srpska. p. 70.
- ISBN 9781584561828
- ^ Bietenholz & Deutscher 2003, p. 234.
Sources
- Bietenholz, Peter G.; Deutscher, Thomas Brian, eds. (2003). "Janus Pannonius". Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation. University of Toronto Press. pp. 233–234. ISBN 978-0-8020-8577-1.
- Birnbaum, Marianna D. (1981). Janus Pannonius, poet and politician. Works of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts philology department. Vol. 56. OCLC 461824985.
- V. A. Fine, John Jr. (2010). When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans: A Study of Identity in Pre-Nationalist Croatia, Dalmatia, and Slavonia in the Medieval and Early-Modern Periods. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-02560-2.
Works
- Opera, Basel, 1555