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

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and

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serving as a court historian in

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under King Matthias Corvinus during the last years of his career. Bonfini was commissioned by Matthias Corvinus to produce a work chronicling the History of Hungary. Bonfini's great work is the '' Rerum Hungaricarum decades'' (Decades of Hungarian History).Encyclopædia Britannica article on Antonio Bonfini
Bonfini gained invaluable merits in the history-writing of Hungary with this work. Until the late 18th century, this work served as a primary source for Hungarian history in European academic circles.

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Italian Renaissance humanists People from the Kingdom of Hungary Italian poets Italian male poets 15th-century Italian historians Italian biographers Italian male biographers 1427 births 1503 deaths Italian chroniclers 15th-century writers in Latin {{italy-poet-stub