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Augustinus Moravus Olomucensis Augustinus Moravus Olomucensis Proceedings of the International Symposium to Mark the 500th Anniversary of the Death of Augustinus Moravus Olomucensis (1467–1513) 13th November 2013, National Széchényi Library, Budapest Edited by Péter Ekler and Farkas Gábor Kiss Institute for Literary Studies, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences – National Széchényi Library Budapest, 2015 Supported by NKA Szépirodalom és Ismerett erjesztés Kollégiuma (3808/01609) NKA Könyvkiadás Kollégiuma (3437/01449) Institute for Literary Studies, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences National Széchényi Library MTA–ELTE Research Group on Humanism in East Central Europe OTKA PD-104316 János Bolyai Research Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (BO/00177/13/1) Editors: Péter Ekler and Farkas Gábor Kiss Editors of the Bibliography: Péter Ekler and Enikő Békés (assistant editor) Index prepared by Krisztina K. Kaposi Notes to the poems and the Panegyricus: Farkas Gábor Kiss and Péter Ekler Language editors: Eszter Timár [English], Theresa Rothfuß [German], Valerio Sanzott a [Italian] Executive publishers: Gábor Kecskeméti and László Tüske Cover page: Meeting of Augustinus (sitt ing) and Laelius (standing) near Padua. Apologia poetarum, Berlin, St. Bibl., ms. lat. fol. 335, 9r ISBN 978-963-200-636-9 Published by the Institute for Literary Studies, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences National Széchényi Library Design: Imre Horváth Prepress preparation: Institute for History, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences Printed: Prime Rate Kft. Contents Lectori salutem . 7 Editors’ Preface and Acknowledgements . 9 Christian Gastgeber Augustinus Moravus und seine Beziehungen zum Wiener Humanistenkreis . 11 Anna Rose „Natio germanica“ der Bologneser Universität und ausländische Studenten von Filippo Beroaldo dem Älteren . 31 MatyአFranciszek Bajger Discovering Relationships between Jan Filipec and Humanism . 45 EmŐke Rita Szilágyi Johannes Roth und Augustinus Moravus Olomucensis . 61 Zoltán Csehy Augustinus noster: Augustinus Olomucensis nella poesia di Bohuslaus Hassensteinius . 69 Farkas Gábor Kiss Augustinus Moravus and the Transmission of Ancient Wisdom in the Context of Poetry . 77 Ádám Smrcz The Portrait of Bassareus Medicus (Conrad Celtis and Augustinus Moravus) . 93 Péter Ekler Augustinus Moravus’s De modo epistolandi . 101 Edina Zsupán Bessarion immer noch in Buda? Zur Geburt der Bibliotheca Corvina . 113 5 CONTENTS Jana KoláŘová Latin Poems Dedicated to Stanislaus Thurzo, Bishop of Olomouc . 139 Lucie Storchová The “Apostle” of Renaissance Humanism in Moravia? . 149 Appendix one Poems by Augustinus Moravus Olomucensis . 157 Appendix two Valentin Eck’s Panegyricus in Honour of Augustinus Moravus Olomucensis . 167 Appendix three Augustinus Moravus Olomucensis (1467–1513). Selected Bibliography. 183 Index . 195 Illustrations . 205 List of Illustrations . 215 Authors and their Affiliations . 216 6 Lectori salutem The study of Central European Humanism of the early modern period has been actuating for a long time the cooperation of the Bohemian, Moravian, and Hungarian scholars. Their joined eff orts never ceased, not even during the most diffi cult decades of the 20th century. Bohumil Ryba, professor at Charles University, in Prague, had just fi nished the edition of a fi fteenth century Latin dissertation writt en by Iohannes Rabensteinensis, the off spring of a Bohemian noble family, before the critical times of September 1942. The booklet was published in the much acclaimed Bibliotheca Scriptorum Medii Recentisque Aevorum, a famous book series that was established by the Hungarian scholar, László Juhász, during his years at Szeged University. By this time, the common undertakings of the Bohemian and the Hungarian scholars had steadily been developed; while Ryba published a few of the humanist Bohuslav Hasištejnský z Lobkovic’s writings in the aforementioned book series in 1937, it was Juhász who, after having closely collaborated with Augustin Potuček for years, published Lobkovic’s lett ers in 1946, ulterior to Potuček’s passing. Moreover, the publication of Stephanus Taurinus Olomucensis’s Stauromachia in 1944, was Juhász’s personal enterprise. There came the grievous subjection of both Czechoslovakia and Hungary during the ensuing decades of the Second World War. Professor Ryba, for instance, was deprived of his Academician title, given a show trial and sentenced to long prison term. Despite this abjection, there had always been someone who kept alive the scholarly interest for the Bohemian–Hungarian cultural contacts of the Renaissance and Baroque period. They were the Hungarians Endre An- gyal, László Dobossy, Endre Kovács, or the Bohemian Richard Pražák, just to mention but a few. Furthermore, Juhász’s acknowledged book series, the Bib lio- theca Scriptorum Medii Recentisque Aevorum was relaunched by Tibor Klaniczay at the Institute for Literary Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, in 1976. Naturally, the new series could not be sustained without the publishing of humanist texts originating from Bohemia, thus Dana Martínková edited the 1563 travelogue writt en in France by the České Budějovice born Simon Proxenus a Sudetis, relying on the manuscript preserved in Brno. The Bibliotheca, undertaking the critical edition and publication of early modern Latin texts, is still being edited at the Institute for Literary Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. It is our institute that hosts that restricted 7 LECTORI SALUTEM scholarly community whose members are committ ed to the complex and exhaustive study of the regional particularities of Central European Humanism. The conference in November 2013, organized by joint eff orts of our institute and National Széchényi Library, constituted the very fi rst opportunity to posit the oeuvre of Augustinus Moravus Olomucensis in the very centre of scholarly att ention, though this body of humanist texts has long ago challenged our interest embedded in the prevailing intellectual context of the Bohemian, Moravian, and Hungarian Humanism. Nowadays, when fi nally the Central European region ceased to be dominated by decades of cataclysms, a research investigating the history of the region’s Latin philological culture will surely reveal new perspectives on collaboration. For, I believe, it was this conference that testifi ed for these new possibilities of further scholarly enterprises; besides, it was an excellent occasion to salute the experts in the relevant fi elds and the learned contributors of this event. It is an extraordinary pleasure to have the opportunity of greeting the collection edited from the papers of this unique conference. Gábor Kecskeméti director of the Institute for Literary Studies, RCH, Hungarian Academy of Sciences 8 Editors’ Preface and Acknowledgements “Quando arrivò in Ungheria aveva già alle spalle una signifi cativa produzione scientifi ca: oltre ad alcuni tratt ati di astronomia, durante il suo soggiorno a Padova aveva infatt i scritt o – per poi publicarli a Venezia – anche il Dialogus in defensionem poetices (1493) e il De modo epistolandi (1495), libelli non privi di interesse dal punto di vista della cultura lett eraria e che furono sicuramente lett i a Buda dagli amici di Augustinus [Moravus Olomucensis]. La ricerca ungherese, perciò, dovrebbe fi nalmente tenerli in debita att en- zione.”1 The internationally renowned scholar, Tibor Klaniczay (1923–1992) and his words about Augustinus Moravus, published in Hungarian in 1993 (post- humously!), encouraged us to conduct further research into his lifework.2 (The Italian translation of the book has come out recently.) The motivation for the international conference the present volume is based on was the 500th anniversary of Augustinus Moravus’s death. The organisation of the 2013 conference was kindly supported by Marta Vaculínová, Petr Mat’a and Christian Gastgeber, who also provided us with useful information concerning Augustinus Moravus. We would like to thank numerous individuals, who helped us in organizing this conference, including Ernő Marosi, who acted as chair. We are also highly grateful for the professional advice provided by István Monok, Árpád Mikó and László Boka. We also acknowledge with gratitude the support of Director Gábor Kecskeméti (Institute for Literary Studies, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) and Directors- General Péter Szemerei and László Tüske (National Széchényi Library) in organising the conference and issuing the present volume. We appreciate the generous contribution of the collections that have made available the digital copies of images in the volume. Among the illustrations on the cover page and at the end of the volume, we have featured 1 Tibor Klaniczay, Alle origini del movimento accademico ungherese. A cura di Amedeo Di Frances- co, Judit Papp, Orsolya Száraz. Presentazione di István Monok. Premessa di Amedeo Di Fran- cesco (Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2010), 89. 2 Tibor Klaniczay, A magyarországi akadémiai mozgalom előtörténete (Budapest: Balassi, 1993), 63. 9 EDITORS’ PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS copies of the manuscript marked as Ms. lat. fol. 335 in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SBB-PK), for which we are obliged. We can only hope that the indistinct features of Augustinus Moravus as we see him in the contemporary painting of Peter Vischer the Younger (see on our cover- page)