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Middelburg attacked by farmers
BERONICIUS, Petrus Johannes.Boeren- en overheids-styd; en de overige gedichten van P.J. Beronicius; welkers eerste in Nederduitsche vaarzen is nagevolgd door J.B. waar by gevoegd is het zonderling leven des dichters; een goed aantal van Nederduitsche aanteekeningen; en een keurig zestal van fraaije koperen platen.      Goes en Middelburg, Jacobus Huysman en Jeroen van de Sande, J.Z., 1766. 8vo. Wrappers. With engraved frontispiece and 6 engraved illustrations on 3 plates by Fokke. (2), XX, 178 pp. Little is known of Beronicius - some suspected that he had been a member of the Jesuits or some other religious order and been thrown out of France. Van der Aa believes him to have come from Flanders or Brabant. Beronicius was a talented linguist, speaking French, English, Italian, Greek and Latin with fluency and ease and studying classical literature and poetry in great depth. The present work, first published in Latin in 1673 by Steven Swart, describes the attack on Middelburg by farmers in 1672. The best translation is that by P. Rabus, in prose, published in 1691 by Pieter van der Straat in Rotterdam. Other translations followed, one printed in Vlissingen in 1711 and one in Leiden in 1728, but were considered unworthy. Our copy, translated by J.B. (possibly J. Baroen), was the natural successor of the Rabus translation and was published at a time when the Rabus translation had become scarce. Beronicius lived a wild life, travelling constantly in England, France and Holland, dressing in filthy clothes, seeking out the company of the liveliest and most scandalous characters of his age and drinking constantly. He was found dead in a puddle outside Rotterdam and it is assumed that he was drunk. Beronicius coined the saying "Natura Parvo Contenta". Good copy.
Scheepers II, 70; Kalff, IV, p. 583; NNBW VIII, 88; E. de la Fontaine Verwey, De illustratie van letterkundige werken in de XVIIIe eeuw, pp. 81 & 148.
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