Cornelius Grapheus
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![]() Portrait of Cornelius Grapheus engraved by Philip Galle (1572) | |
Born | Cornelis De Schrijver 1482 Aalst, County of Flanders, Burgundian Netherlands |
Died | 19 December 1558 Antwerp, Duchy of Brabant, Habsburg Netherlands |
Occupation | secretary to the city of Antwerp |
Language | Dutch |
Period | Renaissance |
Spouse | Adrienne Philips |
Cornelius Grapheus (1482 – 19 December 1558), Latinized from Cornelis De Schrijver, was a secretary to the city of Antwerp and writer.
Life
[edit]Grapheus was born in Aalst, County of Flanders, in 1482. His brother was Joannes Grapheus, the printer who also settled in Antwerp.[1] As a young man Cornelius travelled in Italy. When Thomas More's Utopia was first printed in 1516, Grapheus provided some liminary verses.
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By 1520 he was secretary to the city of Antwerp, writing a Latin panegyric to greet Charles V on his return to that city from Spain. In 1522 he was arrested on accusation of heresy, was taken to Brussels for questioning, and made a full recantation.[2] In 1523 he was set at liberty and returned to Antwerp, where he became a teacher. In 1540 he was reinstated as secretary to the city, and in 1549 he was again involved in the public welcome of a visiting prince, in this case Philip II of Spain. He died in Antwerp on 19 December 1558.
Works
[edit]- Divi Caroli imp. caes. opt. max. desyderatissimus ex Hispania in Germaniam reditus (Antwerp, Michiel Hillen van Hoochstraten, 1520). Available on Google Books.
- Ex Publii Terentii comoediis latinissime colloquiorum formulae (Vienna, 1529). Available on Google Books.
- Reprinted Mainz, 1537 – available on Google Books.
- Spectaculorum in susceptione Philippi (Antwerp, Gillis Coppens van Diest for Pieter Coecke van Aelst, 1550). Available on Internet Archive.
- Dutch translation as De seer wonderlijcke, schoone, triumphelijcke incompst, van den hooghmogenden Prince Philips (Antwerp, Gillis Coppens van Diest for Pieter Coecke van Aelst, 1550). Available on Google Books.
- French translation as Le Triumphe d'Anvers, faict en la susception du Prince Philips (Antwerp, 1550). Available on Google Books.
References
[edit]- ^ Juhász-Ormsby, Ágnes (2003). "Nickolas Udall's "Floures for Latine Spekynge": An Erasmian Textbook" (PDF). Humanistica Lovaniensia. 52: 137–158. ISSN 0774-2908.
- ^ S.B.J. Zilverberg, "Grapheus, Cornelis", Biografisch Lexicon voor de Geschiedenis van het Nederlands Protestantisme, vol. 4 (Kampen, 1998), 148-149.