Hunyadi János emblémája Ottavio Strada 1585 körül készült rajzán = John of Hunyad’s emblem on drawing of Ottavio Strada, around 1585

Gyulai, Éva (2011) Hunyadi János emblémája Ottavio Strada 1585 körül készült rajzán = John of Hunyad’s emblem on drawing of Ottavio Strada, around 1585. A HERMAN OTTÓ MÚZEUM ÉVKÖNYVE, 50. pp. 287-306. ISSN 0544-4225

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Ottavio Strada számos változatban megrajzolt, és a 16. század végi európai elit körében saját maga által terjesztett impresa-gyűjteményébe I. Hunyadi Mátyás magyar király impresája mellett felvette apja, Hunyadi János devizáját is, így akart emléket állítani a 16. századi emlékezet által is jól ismert magyar hadvezérnek. A Hunyadi-impresa azonban, ellentétben a Mátyás királyéval, már nem került be az Aegidius Sadeler metszeteivel megjelent prágai emblémás könyvbe, jelezve, hogy tévedés volt az INVENISSIEM SI VIVISSEM mottót és kerek pajzsot ábrázoló impresát Hunyadinak tulajdonítani, ez ugyanis a korabeli emblematikai irodalom szerint Antonio Severino nápolyi nemesé volt. | Among manuscripts of Ottavio Strada, several could be found in which he collected the impresas of the rulers and prominent personalities of his age, which provided the base for Aegidius Sadeler’s engravings for the Prague emblem book (1601–1603). Among Strada’s emblem drawings, King Matthias Corvinus I’s father, John Hunyadi (1407–1456) is also represented with device depicting a shield and a motto (INVENISSEM SI VIVISSEM). Neapolitan poet, Bernardino Rota (1508/9–1575) mentions a love emblem of his contemporary, Antonio Severino, which consists of a black shield bearing the following motto: INVENISSEM SE VIVEREM (=“I would have found it if I lived”), so Strada was wrong when he attributed this motto to Hunyadi. It can only be suspected that this was due to Strada’s mistake who wanted to commemorate with his drawing the military leader, well-known in the 16th century, too. Although John of Hunyad could not match the Italian, German or French war lords of the 15th and 16th centuries in popularity, and therefore, his emblem is not known with the exception of the one that was presumably drawn erroneously by Ottavio Strada, John Hunyadi was a well-known and acclaimed personality in the late Renaissance on the one hand, as a hero defeating the Turks, the winner of Belgrade, and, on the other hand, as the father of Hungarian King Hungary Matthias Corvinus (1443–1490).

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