Legend in the library

The Independent - London | June 20, 2008| | Copyright

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Knowledge is power, said Francis Bacon. The sumptuous library of King Matthias Corvinus, who ruled Hungary from 1443 to 1490, was one of the greatest in Europe. His realm too was considerable, extending in the north almost to Berlin, including Lusatia, Bohemia, Silesia, and Austria, then running down the Adriatic coast to embrace Belgrade. Hungary was one of the great powers and Matthias a powerful Renaissance monarch.

As to the library, Csaba Csapodi, a 20th-century Hungarian authority on ...

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