THE CORRESPONDENCE OF NICOLAUS OLAHUS WITH THE BATAVIAN AND FLEMISH HUMANISTS
THE CORRESPONDENCE OF NICOLAUS OLAHUS WITH THE BATAVIAN AND FLEMISH HUMANISTS

Summary/Abstract: The Humanist Nicolaus Olahus, due to his correspondence, comes within the well-known genre of ”epistolae familiares” (intimate epistles)˝, pretty popular during Renaissance, when newspaper had not yet been invented, and the people's needs to communicate their news and more significant deeds would be made by correspondence. And if Nicolaus Olahus's letters, especially the political and diplomatic ones, are subjected to some detailed historiographical researches, his familiar letters reveal the momentary opinions and conceptions of the author who had friendship relations with different humanists.

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