# Ransanus: Epitome Rerum Hungaricarum [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MINIATURIST, Italian]() - Date: 1451-1500 - Technique: Manuscript ## Commentary Petrus Ransanus \(Pietro Ranzano\) was a Dominican friar and bishop of Lucera, and a humanistic historian. He visited the court of Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary in 1487, under the pretext of supporting the marriage plans of John Corvinus, Matthias's son, to Bianca Maria Sforza, but in actual fact to help Beatrice, Matthias's queen, to prevent the marriage. Ranzano remained in Hungary until 1490.. Ranzano is the author of several books, including his world history, Annales omnium temporum, of which the last, the 61st, book is the Epitome Rerum Hungaricarum, an outline of Hungarian history in 37 chapters. He dedicated it to King Matthias, although the king died before it was completed.. Upon Ranzano's death, his relative, John of Accia, inherited the manuscript and donated it to Archbishop Thomas Bakócz of Esztergom. Today it is in the National Széchényi Library in Budapest. The miniature is from the manuscript by Ranzano. It depicts Ranzano Speaking in the Presence of King Matthias. ## Related artworks - [Alessandro Cortesi: Poem]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Antiphonary]() - [Antiphoner]() - [Antiphoner]() - [Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics]() - [Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics]() - [Armiranda]() - [Aulus Gellius: Noctes Atticae]() - [Averulino: On the Architecture]() - [Baldo Martorelli: Grammar]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()