Piotr Tafiłowski
Terminus, Volume 26, issue 1 (70) 2024, 2024, pp. 95 - 98
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843844TE.24.005.19708Piotr Tafiłowski
History Notebooks, Issue 143 (1), 2016, pp. 37 - 55
https://doi.org/10.4467/20844069PH.15.001.4925
The text analyzes the published correspondence of Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary (1458–1490), and Pope Sixtus IV (1471–1484). The major part of the letters of both writers was devoted to the fight against the Turk who threatened Christian Europe. These documents are interesting not only because they describe the military action conducted in the Balkans, but also because they constitute a basis on which we can observe the duplicitous politics of the ruler, who had been titled by the pope as the greatest defender of Christianity. Using the argument of his involvement in the fight against the Turk, he pursued his other goals, directing his campaign towards the north-west and entering into conflict with such countries as Poland. At the same time, on the international arena, he was such a deft politician that Polish diplomacy couldn’t stand up to him in any way.
