in the Hall of Forty at the University of Padua in Northern Italy, They are the historian and poet Janus Pannonius (1434 – 1472), the humanist and physician János Zsámboky (Johannes Sambucus) (1531-1584), and the Transylvanian prince István Báthory (1533-1586).
The university will be 800 years old next year and this room will be renovated. And the Ministry of Foreign Affairs contributed 10,000 euros to this work - we read on this English-language website. The university was founded in 1222 and had Hungarian students, and among its instructors were such important figures as Galileo Galilei.
Perhaps it is interesting to note that the youth studying here had the privilege of choosing the teachers. Therefore, there was a teacher who had 3,000 students, while others had much less.
Janus Pannonius also studied here in the 15th century and was not only immortalized in a painting, but in 2017 a statue was erected to him in the garden of the Maldura Palace belonging to the university, courtesy of the Magyar Pen Club. (In our picture.) Created by sculptor Éva Oláh Arré.
János Zsámboky was born in Nagyszombat and studied at several universities. He completed his medical studies in Padua in 1555 and received the title of Medical Licentiate.
about István Báthory the Jezsuita.hu website that the spiritual relations between Padua and Krakow were very close during the reign of István Báthory.
The concept of "padewczyk" meant not only a man from Padua, but also a man with Padua education. The college of Poles there, the Contubernium Polonorum, was not only a scientific but also a diplomatic center at the time. The diplomats of Báthory's entourage, the directors of both Polish and Transylvanian politics, were predominantly young people educated in Padua.
