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What was the significance of the Counter-Reformation in Hungarian literature?

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The Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation saw the rise of Jesuit influence in Hungarian literature, with Jesuit cardinal, orator, and essayist Péter Pázmány’s vigorous prose and Miklós Zrínyi’s 15-canto epic Szigeti veszedelem (1651; “The Peril of Sziget”) as key literary achievements. Pázmány’s Isteni igazságra vezérlő kalauz (1613; “Guide to Divine Truth”) was a refutation of non-Catholic religious doctrines and a masterpiece of Baroque prose.