Servant of the Renaissance: The Poetry and Prose of Nicolaus Olahus

Contents: Humanism in 16th-century Hungary - Humanism in the 16th-century Low Countries - Nicolaus Olahus’s literary background - Rhetoric in the Renaissance - Literature as ars rhetorica - Olahus’s poetry: sources and generic repertoire - Olahus’s works in prose - The Carmina: description and history of the manuscripts and previous editions.