The first traces of French Enlightenment ideas are found in Transylvania; but these ideas later flooded the country through the tycoons residing in Vienna. It was above all the anti-religious tendencies of the Enlightenment that made their influence felt, but soon the social and altruistic element was also announced. The […]

As a writer, sacred speaker and statesman he explained a very fruitful activity. His main work: Guide to Divine Truth, made the struggles for the faith decide in favor of Catholicism. For his sermons, collected at the end of his life, he is rightly considered one of the greatest representatives of […]

And the influence of the humanistic spirit did not diminish in Hungary even after the death of the great king. In the smaller provincial centers the legacy of Mattia remained alive for decades. The new generation of Hungarian humanists was in continuous relations with Italy, whose fruitful strength was also […]

Hungarian literary culture is the daughter of Christianity; in it, therefore, no pagan traditions made themselves felt, nor are there written documents of Hungarian poetry from the pre-Christian era. The first to cultivate literature were the ecclesiastics with the Venetian San Gerardo, to whom we owe the work entitled Deliberationes. A […]