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Bálint Balassi

Bálint Balassi
Bálint Balassi, Hungarian writer and noble (d. 1594)

Baron Bálint Balassi de Kékkő et Gyarmat was a Hungarian Renaissance lyric poet. He wrote mostly in Hungarian, but was also proficient in eight more languages: Latin, Italian, German, Polish, Turkish, Slovak, Croatian and Romanian. He is the founder of modern Hungarian lyric and erotic poetry.

20 October 1554

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