Janus Pannonius
Croatian-Hungarian poet
- Lived
- 1434–1472
- Country
- Croatia
Updated September 2026
About Janus Pannonius
Janus Pannonius was an influential intellectual in the Kingdom of Hungary, a Latinist, poet, diplomat and Bishop of Pécs. He was the most significant poet of the Renaissance in the Kingdom of Hungary and one of the better-known figures of humanist poetry in Europe.
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