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Meet Galeotto Marzio da Narni, 15th century chronicler. Born in Italy, Marzio led a peripatetic life, studying medicine in Padua, becoming professor of poetry and rhetoric at Bologna, tutoring Pope Sixtus VI and washing up in Hungary as head of the royal library and general court flatterer in King Matthias’s

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High on the hill sits the lonely castle… No, that’s not quite right. Buda Castle has plenty of neighbors, though perhaps none so well-lit. The site is ancient even if the buildings are not. Buda Castle was annihilated in the Siege of Budapest and the “medieval” walls on show are

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