“Epistular communication as an exchange of thoughts, ideas, intimate confessions, political appeals, or dedication prefaces – epistles affirmed in a special way in the period of humanism as a Pan-European phenomenon. This was allowed by, among other things, the linguistic connection which enabled the humanist scholars and intellectuals to communicate their attitudes, ideas and everything they wanted to exchange among themselves. Antun Vrančić lived in such a linguistic, spiritual and thought context, which is confirmed by his epistolary. Most of Vrančić’s manuscript legacy, including letters, was later bought by the Count F. Széchényi and then left in his legacy to the state before his death, thus today it can be found in the Széchényi Library in Budapest. This legacy was published by Lászlo Szalay and Gusztáv Wenzel in the series Monumenta Hungariae historica of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, therefore this work is based on the corpus of letters contained in that edition. The epistolary was printed, exclusively or partially, in a total of 9 volumes: the volumes IX, X, XIX, XX, XXV and XXVI contain only correspondence between 1538 and 1573, the volumes IV and V contain letters from 1553 to 1557, while the volume VI contains several letters from 1567 and 1568, written during Vrančić’s missions in Constantinople, and the volume XXVII contains promiscue letters from 1532 to 1573.”

Summary of the paper: Sorić, D. Classification of the letters of Antun Vrančić. // Colloquia Maruliana … 18, 18 (2009), pp. 83-117.