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Sebestyén Tinódi Lantos was a 16th-century Hungarian lyricist, epic poet, political historian, and minstrel. Born around 1510 in the village of Tinód, he spent his career chronicling Hungary's Ottoman wars in verse and song. He died on the 30th of January 1556 in Sárvár.
Lantos is a Hungarian word meaning the lute-player. Tinódi earned this name through his practice of setting his verse to music and performing it to audiences.
The Chronica is the collected edition of Tinódi's poems and songs, published in Kolozsvar in 1554. It records the political and military events of 16th-century Hungary, particularly the Ottoman wars of his era.
Tinódi received a patent of nobility in 1553. The king of Hungary formally recognized him as a chronicler who had processed the historical events of his age in poetic form.
Tinódi became a political poet following the Ottoman invasion of 1541, which made a deep impression on him. His verses urged Hungarian resistance to the Ottomans, and he visited parliament and battle sites to gather material for his chronicles.
A battle wound in 1539 rendered Tinódi permanently ineligible for military service. He was not yet thirty years old at the time.