Margarita Poetica – Reads of the Basic Humanist Culture in the Carpathian Basin until 1526.

Margarita Poetica – Reads of the Basic Humanist Culture in the Carpathian Basin until 1526.

Margarita Poetica – Reads of the Basic Humanist Culture in the Carpathian Basin until 1526. Anthology
Selected by Péter Ekler
NSZL–Gondolat Publishers, Budapest, 2011.
[National Collection, Series Editors: László Boka, Ferenc Kégli), 220 pages
ISBN 978 963 200 590 4

Language: 
Hungarian
2 490,- Ft
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The title of the anthology refers to the famous educational book by Albrecht von Eyb (1420–1475), Margarita Poetica. It offers a selection of the documents of the studia humanitatis used and read in Hungary before 1526, works teaching the elements and fine style of Latin, as well as writings on history, poetry and moral philosophy.

The introductory chapters and the fragments in Hungarian allow the reader to have a look at the works by Italian Humanists including Guarino Veronese, Lorenzo Valla and Niccolò Perotti, and the “textbooks” of transalpine Humanist scholars (like Erasmus).

National Collection

National Collection is a joint book series of National Széchényi Library and Gondolat Publishing House that started in 2010 with the purpose of continuing the previous series National Széchényi Library Publications (Országos Széchényi Könyvtár Kiadványai) and National Széchényi Library Booklets (Országos Széchényi Könyvtár Füzetei), keeping their values alive. It is a collection of publications on history of culture, press, books, library and library informatics that all relate to the Hungarian national library or its collections. Apart from studies and conference materials, National Collection also publishes special bibliographies and catalogues based upon the Hungarica resources at NSZL, providing help for the further research of Hungarian culture history.