The volume presents Hungarian historical research in the Vatican and various collections in Rome and Italy. The monograph describes, point by point, the different periods of research history, from the Baroque to the positivist period, up to the end of the 20th century, with a view to the 21st century. Its main source material can be found in the manuscript collection of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest).
This historiography diagnoses the significant problems of the Hungarian academic presence in Rome in relation to other Western European projects and institutions. The narrative focuses on the elected Bishop and Abbot-Canon Vilmos Fraknói, Secretary General of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and his heritage, who died a hundred years ago in 1924.
