VERANZIO, ANTONIO. — Archbishop of Strigonia, diplomat, humanist, and Hungarian historian, born in Sebenico on 29 May 1504, died on 16 June 1573 at Esztergom.
His mother, Margherita Statileo of Traù, was the sister of Giovanni Statileo, bishop of Transylvania, under whose care A. V. was educated from the age of ten. He studied at the University of Padua, was appointed provost of Buda and secretary to the king of Hungary, Giovanni Szapolyai. He undertook embassies to France and England, and in 1531, then again in 1548, to Rome. In 1549 he entered the service of the king of Hungary, Ferdinand of Habsburg, who appointed him canon lector of Esztergom and entrusted him with diplomatic missions to Constantinople. Bishop of Pécs on 3 August 1554 and of Eger on 17 July 1560, he had fortresses built by Italian architects. In 1568 he concluded the Peace of Adrianople with Sultan Selim. Archbishop of Strigonia on 25 September 1570 and subsequently also lieutenant of the King, V. time. The author of historical essays, memoirs, observations on the historical work of Paolo Giovio, and accounts of his own missions to the Ottoman Porte, his writings, composed in Latin, Hungarian, and partly Italian, constitute valuable material for reconstructing his era. He also left poems in Latin.
FAUSTO, Antonio’s nephew, born at Sebenico in 1540 and died at Venice in 1617, also studied at Padua; bishop of Csanád in Hungary on 20 December 1600, he resigned in 1607; he is the author of a biography of his uncle and of a Dictionarium quisque nobilissimarum Europae linguarum: latinae, italicae, germanicae, dalmaticae et ungaricae, published at Venice in 1595.