Monok István - A Bibliotheca Corvina

The Bibliotheca Corvina is one of the symbols of the glory of King Mátyás Hunyadi's reign. The king created it as part of the monarch's representation and a planned cultural policy with the intellectual support of the humanists who came to his court and the intellectuals of the country, mainly high priests. For the sake of the country. This is how contemporaries and direct descendants knew it. The dispersal of the bright library occurred at the same time as the end of the power position of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary, so the struggle for the unification of the country was intertwined with the idea of ​​collecting the pieces of Corvina. That is why the Library could become a symbol of several political aspirations, and that is why several circles of power and cultural communities tried to claim it as their own.

The book follows the fate of the Bibliotheca Corvina by showing how it became a mission and became an end in this story