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

Life

Anslo was born at Amsterdam and brought up a Mennonite. 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

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; they arrived in November 1651. In December he was received into the Catholic Church, together with forty-three others, as is shown by manuscript records of the Society of Jesus (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 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

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

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References

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

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Anslo, Reyer 1622 births 1669 deaths 17th-century Dutch poets Catholic poets Dutch male poets Dutch Roman Catholics Writers from Amsterdam Converts to Roman Catholicism from Mennonitism Dutch Mennonites Mennonite writers Mennonite poets