Bøger af Miklos Zrinyi

Szigeti veszedelem recounts in epic fashion the Battle of Szigetvár, in which a vastly outnumbered Croatian-Hungarian army tried to resist a Turkish invasion. The battle concluded when Captain Zrínyi's forces, having been greatly depleted, left the fortress walls in a famous onslaught. Approximately four hundred troops forayed into the Turkish camp. The epic concludes with Zrínyi killing Sultan Suleiman I, before being gunned down by janissaries. Being in the epic tradition, specifically modeled on the Iliad, it opens with an invocation of a muse (in this case, the Virgin Mary), and often features supernatural elements.

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Considered to be one of the cornerstones of Hungarian literature, and one of most important works of the seventeenth century of any language, The Siege of Sziget has been virtually unknown and entirely inaccessible outside of Hungary—until now. Composed an epic poem of some 1,500 stanzas, Miklós Zrínyi's words recall in vivid and often fantastic detail the events of the siege, the heroes on both sides, and the climactic final sortie that led to defeat for the Hungarians and painfully empty victory for the Turks.