Antonio Bonfini | |
Birth Date: | 1427 |
Death Date: | 1502 |
Occupation: | Priest, canon, chronicler, historian |
Subject: | History of the Hungarians |
Language: | Latin |
Nationality: | Italian |
Death Place: | Buda |
Antonio Bonfini (Latin variant: Antonius Bonfinius) (1427‒1502[1]) was an Italian humanist and poet serving as a court historian in Hungary under King Matthias Corvinus during the last years of his career.[2]
Bonfini was commissioned by Matthias Corvinus to produce a work chronicling the History of Hungary. The book was named Historia Pannonica: Sive Hungaricarum Rerum Decades IV.[3]