Reyer Anslo (1622 or 1626 – 16 May 1669) was a Dutch poet.

Life

Anslo was born at

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and brought up a

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. 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 he was received into the

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, together with forty-three others, as is shown by manuscript records of the

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(Lit. annuae Soc. Jes., in the Burgundian Library at Brussels, VI, No. 21818b fo 300, ao 1651). He proceeded to Rome, where he became secretary to Cardinal

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, and received from

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a gold medal for his poetical labours. In 1655 he was presented to Queen

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, to whom he dedicated new poems. A poem entitled ''De Zweedsche Pallas'' ("The Swedish Pallas"), brought him a golden chain. He died at

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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

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. He wrote an epic on ''The Plague at Naples'' (1656).

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References

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Peter Paul Maria Alberdingk Thijm Peter Paul Maria Alberdingk Thijm (21 October 1827, at Amsterdam – 1 February 1904, at Leuven) was a Dutch academic and writer. Life He made his studies in his home city, at first at the Gymnasium and later at the Athenaeum, from which he gra ...

in ''

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''; **____, in the ''Dietsache Warande'' (Amsterdam); **____, ''Spiegel van Nederlandsche Letteren'' (Louvain, 1877, II, III).

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