Exhibition – MATTIA CORVINO E FIRENZE

Exhibition – MATTIA CORVINO E FIRENZE 10 October 2013, the year of Italian culture in Hungary and of Hungarian culture in Italy, will mark the inauguration in the Museo di San Marco of an exhibition focusing on the figure of Matthias Corvinus, king of Hungary from 1458 to 1490, and the ties that bound the king to Humanism and to Florence, its…

Celebrating a Bond Between Hungary and the Medicis – NYTimes.com

Celebrating a Bond Between Hungary and the Medicis – NYTimes.com Matthias Corvinus, king of Hungary from 1458 to 1490, formed an unusually close relationship with Lorenzo de’ Medici, the head of the Medici clan from 1469 until his death in 1492. This special bond, which made Hungary one of the first states north of the Alps…