Andreas Pannonius, Adalbert Csanádi, Gregor Gyöngyösi, Valentine Hadnagy
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He was born around 1424, and was a soldier in John Hunyadi's army for 5 years in his youth. From 1445 he was a Carthusian monk in Venice and Bologne, from 1460 he was the vicar of the monastery of Ferrara, and in 1471 he got into Pavia. He wrote commentaries to the Bible, such as the mystic explanation to the Song of Songs ('Expositio super cantica canticorum'). In 1467 he edited a royal mirror with a dedication to king Matthias ('De regiis virtutibus'), which he later rewrote for Herole d'Este, Prince of Ferrara. After 1471 he wrote an essay about the human soul dedicated to the memory of Borso d'Este.
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Adalbert Csanádi
In 1494 he joined the Paulian order, in 1500 he was the preacher of the order in Budaszentlőricz. He wrote poetry, his poems surviving in Gregor Gyöngyösi's history of the order and in the Paulian breviary. He died in 1575.
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Gregor (Gergely) Gyöngyösi
He was born around 1472 in Gyöngyös in county Heves. In 1493 he went to the university of Cracow, where he gained his baccalaureate degree in 1495. Then he joined the Paulian order, where he worked as a preacher. Between 1512-1519 he was the prior of the Santo Stefano Rotondo Paulian friary in Rome. From 1520 he became the superior of the Paulian order, then in 1522 he resigned. In the 1510s he summarised the duties of monastic leaders in an independent work, entitled 'Epitome', and wrote about the structure of the order in the work 'Directorium'. He tried to popularise the order for foreign readers in his work called 'Decalogus'. He published his work in print in Rome. In the work "Vitae fratrum' he wrote the history of his order, but this work has survived only in manuscript form.
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Valentine (Bálint) Hadnagy
He probably studied at the university of Krakkow, and from 1490 he was a monk in the Paulian monastery of Budaszentlőrinc. In 1507 the superior Stephen appointed him the preacher of the order, and commissoned with writing the biography of the patron saint of the order, St Paul the hermit. It was published in Venice in 1511 in a different addenda. From among these addenda the most significant were breviary readings about St Paul's life and the list of miracles taking place at his tomb at Budaszentlőrinc. He continued Gregor Gyöngyösi's work. Between 1532 and 1536 he was the superior of the Paulian order.
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