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SEVERIANUS, Julius - FRUYTIER, Lucas (1541-1566) ed.

Syntomata Rhetorices: Nunc primum diligentia & studio Lucae Fruterii Brugensis in lucem edita
Antverpiae
C. Plantinum
1584
€180 - €300

8vo, 27, [5 bl.] pp, woodcut printer's device on title-page. Dedicated to Marcus Laurinus of Watervliet. Usually sold together and bound after "Librorum qui recuperari potuerunt reliquiæ", but here separately. Sewn, marbled cover

Fruytier was born at Bruges in 1541. He went to Paris to study Law and classical literature and was a brilliant student. Ref. Belg. Typ. 6740; Voet 2206B (The edition was printed in Leiden, but a number of copies received a title-page with Plantin's Antwerp imprint.) Van der Aa: 'Lucas Fruytier was, naar het oordeel van Justus Lipsius, een der grootste geesten, die de Nederlanden hebben voortgebracht. Reeds in zijne jeugd bezat hij eene geleerdheid, die anderen in hunnen ouderdom soms niet bereiken.' "Na zich in de kaatsbaan te veel verhit hebbende, dronk hij te spoedig koud water, tengevolge waarvan hij in 1566 overleed

Humanism