Franciscus Plante (21 April 1613 (bapt.) – 1690) was a Dutch poet and chaplain.

Biography

Plante was born in

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and studied theology at

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. In October 1636 he travelled as personal chaplain with

John Maurice of Nassau John Maurice of Nassau (Dutch: ''Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen''; German: ''Johann Moritz von Nassau-Siegen''; Portuguese: ''João Maurício de Nassau-Siegen''; 17 June 1604 – 20 December 1679), called "the Brazilian" for his fruitful period a ...

to the Dutch colony in Brazil, returning together in 1644. In 1647 became a minister in Strijen, in 1653 in

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and in 1657 in Breda, where he remained until his death. He is thought to have died in Breda. In 1647, he finished a twelve-volume Latin epos called ''Mauritias'' (in

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, ''Mauritiados''), which in the first six volumes describes the activities of the

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from 1624 to 1634 and in the last 6 volumes praises John Maurice's leadership from 1634 to 1641. It was published in

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, and included twenty engravings that had already appeared in a work by Caspar Barlaeus, which had been published in the same year. Four maps ('' Ceará'', ''

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'', '' Paraíba'', and ''Pernambuco Borealá'') and a

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of John Maurice were also incorporated from Barlaeus’ work. Plante later wrote Barlaeus' obituary in 1648.

Sources

Obituary of Barlaeus, by Plante

*W.A.P. Smit
''Het Latijnse epos van Franciscus Plante''
pp 238 – 241 of ''Kalliope in de Nederlanden. Het Renaissancistisch-klassicistische epos van 1550 tot 1850.'' Van Gorcum & Comp.,

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1975-1983. (Dutch)

References

1613 births 1690 deaths 17th-century Dutch Calvinist and Reformed ministers Poets of the Spanish Netherlands 17th-century male writers Dutch male poets Clergy from Bruges Writers from Bruges {{Netherlands-writer-stub