Arnout Coninx (1548–1617) was a printer and bookseller in the city of
Antwerp
Antwerp (; nl, Antwerpen ; french: Anvers ; es, Amberes) is the largest city in Belgium by area at and the capital of Antwerp Province in the Flemish Region. With a population of 520,504, from 1579 until his death in 1617. In 1586 he was fined for unlicensed printing, and in 1591 he was investigated for selling forbidden books. When the city of Antwerp
had been reconquered for
Philip II of Spain
Philip II) in Spain, while in Portugal and his Italian kingdoms he ruled as Philip I ( pt, Filipe I). (21 May 152713 September 1598), also known as Philip the Prudent ( es, Felipe el Prudente), was King of Spain from 1556, King of Portugal from ...
in 1585, Protestants had been given four years to settle their affairs and leave or be reconciled to the Catholic Church. Coninx waited until 1590, after the deadline had passed, to register his conversion to Catholicism.
[Alfons K. L. Thijs, ''Van Geuzenstad tot katholiek bolwerk: Maatschappelijke betekenis van de kerk in contrareformatorisch Antwerpen'' (Antwerp, 1990), pp. 102, 243n.]
Publications
* 1584:
Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (; ; English: Erasmus of Rotterdam or Erasmus;''Erasmus'' was his baptismal name, given after St. Erasmus of Formiae. ''Desiderius'' was an adopted additional name, which he used from 1496. The ''Roterodamus'' wa ...
, ''Moriae encomion dat is eenen loff der sotheyt''
Available on Google Books* 1586:
Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Latin: áːɾkus̠ auɾέːli.us̠ antɔ́ːni.us̠ English: ; 26 April 121 – 17 March 180) was Roman emperor from 161 to 180 AD and a Stoic philosopher. He was the last of the rulers known as the Five Good ...
, ''T'Gulde-boec van den loflijken keyser ende welsprekenden oratoor Marcus Aurelius''
Available on Google Books* 1591:
Jan van der Noot
Jonker Jan van der Noot (1539–1595) was a Netherlandish writer who is regarded as the first Renaissance poet in Dutch.
Life
Jan van der Noot was born to a noble family in Brecht, in the Duchy of Brabant, about halfway between Antwerp and Breda. ...
, ''De poeticsche werken van myn heer vander Noot''
Available on Google Books* 1594:
Leon De Meyere, ''Prosopopée d'Anvers à la bienvenue du Sérénissime prince Ernest par la grâce de Dieu archiduc d'Autriche, etc., lieutenant gouverneur et capitaine général des Pays-Bas''
* 1601:
Antonio Ortiz, ''A relation of the solemnetie wherewith the Catholike princes K. Phillip the III. and Quene Margaret were receyued in the Inglish Colledge of Valladolid the 22. of August, 1600'', tr. Francis Rivers
* 1606:
Philip Numan, ''Miracles lately wrought by the intercession of the Glorious Virgin Mary at Mont-aigu, nere unto Sichen in Brabant'', translated by
Robert Chambers
* 1608:
Jean Zuallart, ''Le très dévot voyage de Jérusalem''
Available on Google Books* 1615:
Jan Franco, ''Ephemeris metheorologica. Seer schoone declaratie vande revolutien ende inclinatien van desen
..jaere ons Heeren. M.D.C.XV.''
References
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1548 births
1617 deaths
16th-century printers
17th-century printers
16th-century publishers (people)
17th-century publishers (people)
Book publishers (people) of the Habsburg Netherlands