Antonio Bonfini (Latin variant: ''Antonius Bonfinius'') (1427‒1502) was an

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who spent the last years of his career as a court historian in

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with King

Matthias Corvinus Matthias Corvinus, also called Matthias I ( hu, Hunyadi Mátyás, ro, Matia/Matei Corvin, hr, Matija/Matijaš Korvin, sk, Matej Korvín, cz, Matyáš Korvín; ), was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1458 to 1490. After conducting several mi ...

. 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''.Encyclopædia Britannica article on Antonio Bonfini

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