Hungarian poet, essayist, and military leader. His heroic epic Szigeti veszedelem/
The Siege of Sziget 1651 celebrates his great-grandfather’s attempt to hold the
stronghold of Szigetvár in 1566 against the armies of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I.
A major figure in Hungarian baroque literature, Zrinyi was also a successful general
who wrote a number of military and historical studies.