Cornelius Grapheus (1482 – 19 December 1558),
Latinized from Cornelis De Schrijver, was a secretary to 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, and writer.
Life
Grapheus was born in
Aalst,
County of Flanders, in 1482. His brother was
Joannes Grapheus, the printer who also settled in Antwerp.
As a young man Cornelius travelled in Italy. When
Thomas More's ''
Utopia'' was first printed in 1516, Grapheus provided some liminary verses.
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.
[S.B.J. Zilverberg, "Grapheus, Cornelis", ''Biografisch Lexicon voor de Geschiedenis van het Nederlands Protestantisme'', vol. 4 (Kampen, 1998), 148-149.] 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
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 ...
. He died in Antwerp on 19 December 1558.
Works
*''Divi Caroli imp. caes. opt. max. desyderatissimus ex Hispania in Germaniam reditus'' (Antwerp,
Michiel Hillen van Hoochstraten, 1520)
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*''Ex Publii Terentii comoediis latinissime colloquiorum formulae'' (Vienna, 1529)
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**Reprinted Mainz, 1537 �
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*''Spectaculorum in susceptione Philippi'' (Antwerp,
Gillis Coppens van Diest for
Pieter Coecke van Aelst
Pieter Coecke van Aelst or Pieter Coecke van Aelst the Elder ( Aalst, 14 August 1502 – Brussels, 6 December 1550) was a Flemish painter, sculptor, architect, author and designer of woodcuts, goldsmith's work, stained glass and tapestries. , 1550)
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**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)
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**French translation as ''Le Triumphe d'Anvers, faict en la susception du Prince Philips'' (Antwerp, 1550)
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References
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1482 births
1558 deaths
People from Aalst, Belgium
16th-century poets
Flemish Renaissance humanists
16th-century Latin-language writers
Writers from Antwerp