Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, established a royal library the Bibliotheca Corviniana between 1458 and 1490.
 Although the exact number of his books is unknown, his Bibliotheca Corviniana was one of Europe's largest collections of books when he died
 His marriage to Beatrice of Naples strengthened the influence of contemporaneous Italian art and scholarship, and it was under his reign that Hungary became the first land outside Italy to embrace the Renaissance

