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Matthias Fountain, Buda Castle, Budapest, Hungary

Galeotto Marzio, Matthias Fountain, Buda Castle, Budapest, Hungary

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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