| Reyer Anslo | |
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| Born | 1626 Amsterdam, County of Holland, Dutch Republic |
| Died | 10 May 1669 Perugia, Italy |
| Citizenship | Netherlands |
| Occupation(s) | poet, dramaturgy |
Reyer Anslo (1622 or 1626 – 16 May 1669) was a Dutch poet.
Life
Anslo was born at Amsterdam and brought up a Mennonite.His family originated from Christiania, now Oslo (Norway). His mother remarried in 1631. He was baptized in 1646. Early civic fame as a poet came to him in Amsterdam, when he was rewarded by his with a laurel crown and a silver dish for a poem in honour of the foundation stone of the new town hall in 1648. In 1649 he travelled to Rome with Arnout Hellemans Hooft (1629-1680), the son of P.C. Hooft; they arrived in November 1651.
In December 1651 he was received into the Catholic Church, together with forty-three others, as is shown by manuscript records of the Society of Jesus. He proceeded to Rome, where he became secretary to Cardinal Luigi Capponi, and received from Pope Innocent X a gold medal for his poetical labours. In 1655 he was presented to Queen Christina of Sweden, to whom he dedicated new poems. A poem entitled De Zweedsche Pallas ("The Swedish Pallas"), brought him a golden chain. He died at Perugia.
Works
Anslo's collected works were published in 1713. They include a tragedy, "The Parisian Blood-Bridal" (De parysche bloed-bruiloff, 1649), dealing with the Massacre of St. Bartholomew. He wrote an epic on The Plague at Naples (1656).
Notes
- "K. ter Laan, Letterkundig woordenboek voor Noord en Zuid · dbnl". DBNL. Retrieved Sep 4, 2020.
- "Een naekt beeldt op een marmore matras seer schoon - Boeken - Verloren". Uitgeverij Verloren. Retrieved Sep 4, 2020.
- (Lit. annuae Soc. Jes., in the Burgundian Library at Brussels, VI, No. 21818b fo 300, ao 1651)
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Dutch Literature" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
References
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Reyer Anslo". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. The entry cites:
- Peter Paul Maria Alberdingk Thijm in Kirchenlexikon;
- ____, in the Dietsache Warande (Amsterdam);
- ____, Spiegel van Nederlandsche Letteren (Louvain, 1877, II, III).
External links
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