György Bessenyei

Hungarian writer

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In Hungarian literature: The period of the Enlightenment
…the first literary work by György Bessenyei, a translation (from the French) of Alexander Pope’s Essay on Man, the new era began. All of Bessenyei’s works served a didactic purpose. His drama Ágis tragédiája (1772; “The Tragedy of Agis”) was a somewhat creaking vehicle for his liberal ideas. His best…
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