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The Peril of Sziget
work by Zrínyi
Also known as: “Szigeti veszedelem”
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discussed in biography
- In Miklós Zrínyi
…Hungarian literature, is his epic Szigeti Veszedelem (1645–46; Eng. trans., “The Peril of Sziget,” in Hungarian Poetry, 1955), which deals with the heroic defense of the fortress of Szigetvár (1566) against the armies of the sultan Süleyman II. The commander of the fortress, the central figure of the epic, was…
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place in Hungarian literature
- In Hungarian literature: Effects of the Counter-Reformation
…literary achievement was an epic, Szigeti veszedelem (1651; “The Peril of Sziget”), in 15 cantos, on the siege in 1566 of Szigetvár, which had been defended against the Turks by Zrínyi’s great-grandfather. Though the influence of classical epics is clear, the work remains profoundly original and Hungarian. Another poet of…
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