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Bibliography. 747 C. AMBASSADORS' DESPATCHES. Several of these are in Fray's Epistolae (see above) ; the most abundant collection of such material is however to be found in the Despatches of the Venetian am- bassadors, contained chiefly in the Diarii of Marino Sanuto the younger, 1496-1533. 58 vols. A useful extract of the whole has been published for the years 1496-1515, by Valentinelli, in Esposizione di rapporti fra la Repubblica Veneta e gli Slavi meridionali, 1863. Extracts from the Diarii bearing on Hungarian history have been printed by G. Wenczel, in the Publications of the Hungarian Academy. For many important events of the period under question (1490-1526), Sanuto is not only the chief but the sole source of information. II. CHRONICLERS AND HISTORIANS. For Bohemia the most important contemporary history is the work of John Dubravius, Historiae regni Bohemiae ab initio libri xxxni., in Freher, Scriptores rer. Bohem., 1602, more particularly for our period. With regard chiefly to Hungarian affairs see : Bonfinius, Antonius (died 1502). Rerum Hungaricarum decades libris XLV. com- prehensae, covering the years 364-1495, but important only for the fifteenth century. Best edition, Leipzig, 1771. Cuspinianus, Joannes. Conventus Maximiliani I Caes. cum Vladislao Hungariae, Sigismundo Poloniae ac Ludovico Bohemiae Regibus, in Freher, Germ. rer. Script, n. pp. 304-320 ; and especially his Tagebuch, covering the years 1502- 27, in Fontes rer. Austriac. Script, i. pp. 397-416. Istvanfi, N. Regni Hungarici historia libris xxxrv ab anno 1490 Vienna, 1758. (Istvanfi, who died in 1615, although not strictly contemporary, is still very important for the period 1490-1526.) Tubero, L. (a Dalmatian). Commentariorum de rebus suo teinpore in Pannonia et Turcia et finitimis regionibus gestis libri XL, covering the years 1490 to 1522. In Schwandtner, Script, rer. Hung. n. pp. 107-381. III. MODERN WORKS. A. GENERAL. The general histories of the Austro-Hungarian empire by Krones, Handb. d. Gesch. Osterr. and Huber, Gesch. Osterr. vol. in. (Gesch. d. europ. Staaten), and in the general histories of Hungary by L. Szalay, M. Horvath, Engel, Fessler (ed. E. Klein), and Sayous (in French), contain some useful chapters; while the fifth volume of Palacky's Geschichte von Bohmen (Prague, 1865) is still fairly exhaustive for the period after 1490. The best general history of our period, however, is that written for the "millennial," A Magyar nemzet tortenete (Hist. of the Magyar nation), ed. by Alex. Szilagyi. Vol. iv., by W. Fraknoi, who has published a series of authoritative monographs on the chief events of the period, comprises all the aspects of Hungarian history from 1458 to 1526. B. MONOGRAPHS. Fraknoi, W. Matyas Kiraly elete (1890), (Life of King Matthias) ; Magyarorszag a mohacsi vesz elfltt (Hungary before the disaster of Mohacs), 1884; Bakocz Tamas eletrajza (Biography of T. B.).