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Nicolaus Grudius
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Nicolaus Grudius (1504–1570) was a Dutch Neo-Latin poet.
Quotes
Pergit opus Veneris variis disponere formis,Et docilem molli flectere ab arte natem,Dum quaesita Venus totis guttata medullisPerfluat, et dulci laxa labore cadat.
Describing Julia, the mistress of Johannes Secundus. Letter to Hadrianus Marius and Johannes Secundus, Mechlin, 29 May 1532. — Clifford Endres, Johannes Secundus: The Latin Love Elegy in the Renaissance (Hamden, CT: Archon Books, Shoe String Press, 1981), p. 25
External links
J. P. Guépin, De drie dichtende broers Grudius, Marius, Secundus in brieven, reisverslagen en gedichten (Groningen: Styx, 2000)
Peter Godman, "Johannes Secundus and Renaissance Latin Poetry" [Review of Endres 1981], The Review of English Studies'', vol. 39, no. 154 (1988), pp. 258–72
Category:Poets from the Netherlands
Category:Neo-Latin writers
Category:1504 births
Category:1570 deaths