Pope Pius II, Pelbárt Temesvári, Osvát Laskai
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His original name was Enea Silvio de Piccolomini. He was born in 1405, and he studied in Siena and Florence. In 1442 Emperor Frederick III appointed him his secretary, and at the council of Basel he was the supporter of the anti-pope, as his ex-secretary. In 1447 he became bishop of Triest, in 1449 bishop of Siena. In 1458 he became Pope. During his papacy he supported an alliance against the Turks. He was a real humanist author, writing poetry and prose from his youth. Besides his historic works, one of his most important pieces was the 'Cosmographia' (The Description of the World), which he started in 1462, but it remained incomplete because of his death (1464). John Turóczy used it as a source for his chronicle. He wrote the 'De liberorum educatione' (How to Educate Children) for the Hungarian king, Ladislaus V. He was John Vitéz's friend and admirer, and they corresponded with each other. His letterbook, which he compiled in cooperation with Paul Ivanich, Vitéz's court priest, at the request of Paul, the clerk of the chancellery, contains his letters written between 1445 and 1451. The majority of these letters are diplomatic letters, written on behalf of John Hunyadi.
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Pelbárt Temesvári, author of sermons
He was born around 1435 in Temesvár. His Christian name originates from his patron saint, Privartus. In 1458 he studied at the university of Cracow, and in 1463 he received the baccalaureate degree. At first he lived in the monastery of Ozora. In the 1480s he taught theology in the St John monastery of Nuda, then in 1494 he became the superior of the order in Esztergom, finally in 1497 he lived in the Buda monastery again. He fell ill in the 1479-1481 plague. After his recovery in 1483 he wrote a collection of speeches to praise the Virgin Mary for gratitude, entitled 'Stellarium coronae benedictae Mariae Virginis' (The Twelve Stars of the Crown of the Blessed Virgin Mary), which was published in 1496 in Strassburg. It had such an easy structure that his students could make Hungarian sermons on the basis of this (see the Anonymous Carthausian). His other collection of sermons was published in three volumes in 1498 under the title of 'Pomerium' (Fruit Garden), which contained speeches for the feasts of the ecclesiastic year. In 1499 he edited his collection of sermons for the celebrations of saints, then in the same year he edited his Lenten speeches. At the end of his life he compiled a dogmatical encyclopaedia in four volumes, which was completed by his colleague, Osvát Laskai. He died in Buda in 1504. His collections of sermons were very popular throughout Europe, and they were published at least 20 times in the greatest prints of Western Europe before the defeat at Mohács in 1526.
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Osvát Laskai
He was born around 1450 in the town Laskó in county Baranya. As a Franciscan monk he became the lector of the St John monastery of Buda, then in 1494 he became the principal of the Esztergom watch district. In 1495-1497, then from 1507 he was the guardian of Pest. He was the vicar of the Observant order several times (1497-1501, 1507-1509). He encouraged the publishing of the chronicle of the Franciscan order, started by Blasius Szalkai. In 1510 he died after the great plague
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