La rivista Corvina : l'uso politico dell'arte medievale in Ungheria tra le due guerre mondiali

The Hungarian review Corvina, published in Italian since 1921 just after the signing of the Treaty of Trianon, documents the evolution of the Hungarian-Italian diplomatic and political connection. Corvina's founder, Albert Berzeviczy, like many Hungarians, sought a revision of the treaty, which had deprived Hungary of nearly 70 percent of its territory and population. In Corvina, contributors used literature, history, and art to reconstruct a Hungarian national past that was almost mythical in its forms, with Italy and Hungary tightly connected. Art came to symbolize a past in which Hungary was still a great kingdom. From this point of view, the so-called Angevin Naples-born kings, Charles I (1310–1342) and his son Louis the Great (1342–1382), and most important of all, King Mathias Corvinus (1458–1490), were the protagonists of a fabulous era very far from a sad and later tragic present.