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Joannes, Secundus, 1511-1536

LC control no.n 83040505
LC classificationPA8580
Personal name headingJoannes, Secundus, 1511-1536
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Variant(s)Janus, Secundus, 1511-1536
Everaerts, Jan, 1511-1536
Everardi, Joannes, 1511-1536
Everardus, Joannes Secundus, 1511-1536
Jean, Second, 1511-1536
Johannes, Secundus, 1511-1536
Second, Jean, 1511-1536
Secundus, J. Nicolajus, 1511-1536
Secundus, Joannes Nicolaïus, 1511-1536
Secundus, Janus, 1511-1536
Secundus, Joannes Nicolai, 1511-1536
Secundus, Nicol.-Joh., 1511-1536
Associated countryNetherlands Belgium
LocatedMechelen (Belgium)
Birth date1511-11-15
Death date1536-09-25
Place of birthHague (Netherlands)
Place of deathSint-Amands (Belgium)
Field of activityLatin poetry, Medieval and modern
Profession or occupationPoets
Found inIoannis Secundi Hagiensis opera, 1541
Brunet (Secundus [Everardus] (Nicol.-Joh.))
Grässe (Secundus, J. Nicolajus)
Iohannis Secundi opera, 1651.
Kisses, 1775: title page (Joannes Secundus Nicolaïus)
The love poems of Joannes Secundus, 1930.
Essais sur Jean Second, 2011.
Wikipedia, viewed July 7, 2020 (Johannes Secundus; also Janus Secundus; a New Latin poet of Dutch nationality; born Jan Everaerts in The Hague on November 15, 1511; in 1528 his family moved to Mechlin, where he wrote his first book of elegies; in 1532 he went to Bourges with his brother Marius to study law under Alciati and obtained his licentia; in 1533 he went to join his other brother Grudius at the Spanish court of Charles V; there he spent two years working as secretary to the Archbishop of Toledo; he returned to Mechlin because of illness, and died at Saint-Amand on September 25, 1536; he was a prolific writer, and in his short life he produced several books of elegies on his lovers Julia and Neaera, epigrams, odes, verse epistles and epithalamia, as well as some prose writings (epistles and itineraria); his most famous work was the Liber Basiorum)
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