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PIETER CORNELISSEN See also: born at See also: Amsterdam on the 16th of See also: March 1581
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His
See also: father was one of the leading citizens of See also: Holland, both in politics and in the patronage of letters, and for some
See also: time burgomaster of Amsterdam
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As early as 1598 the See also: young See also: man was made a member of the chamber of rhetoric In Liefde bloeiende, and produced before that See also: body his tragedy of See also: Achilles and See also: Polyxena, not printed until 1614
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In See also: June 1 598 he See also: left Holland and proceeded to See also: Paris, where on the loth of See also: April 1599 he saw the body of Gabrielle d'See also: Estrees lying in See also: state
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He went a few months later to Venice, Florence and See also: Rome, and in 1600 to Naples
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During his See also: Italian sojourn he made a deep and fruitful study of the best literature of See also: Italy
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In See also: July 1600 he sent home to the In Liefde bloeiende a very See also: fine letter in verse, expressing his aspirations for the development of Dutch See also: poetry
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He returned through See also: Germany, and after an See also: absence of three years and a See also: half found himself in Amsterdam again on the 8th of May 16o1
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In 1602 he brought out his second tragedy, See also: Theseus and See also: Ariadne, printed at Amsterdam in 1614
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In 16o5 he completed his beautiful pastoral drama Granida, not published until 1615
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He studied See also: law and See also: history at See also: Leiden from 16o6 to 1609, and in June of the latter See also: year received from See also: Prince See also: Maurice of Orange the See also: appointment of steward of Muiden, See also: bailiff of Gooiland, and See also: lord of Weesp, a joint office of See also: great emolument
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He occupied himself with repairing and adorning the decayed See also: castle of Muiden, which was his residence during the See also: remainder of his See also: life
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There he entertained the poet See also: Vondel, the See also: scholar Barlaeus, 1 Constantin Huygens, Vossius, See also: Laurens Reael and others
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IIooft had been a suitor for the See also: hand of Anna Roemer Visscher, and after the See also: death of Roemer Visscher both the sisters visited Muiden
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Anna's sympathies were in time diverted to the school of See also: Jacob See also: Cats, but See also: Marie Tesselschade maintained close ties with Hooft, who revised her See also: translation of See also: Tasso: In See also: August 1610 he married Christina See also: van Erp, an
1 Kaspar van Baerle (1584-1648), professor of rhetoric at Amsterdam, and famous as a Latin poet
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accomplished lady who died in 1623, and four years later he married Eleonora Hellemans
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In 1612 Hooft produced his See also: national tragedy of Geeraerdt van Velzen (pr
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1613), a See also: story of the reign of Count See also: Floris V
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In 1614 was performed at Coster's See also: academy Hooft's See also: comedy of See also: Ware-nar, an adaptation of the Aulularia of Plautus, first printed in 1617
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In 1616 he wrote another tragedy, Baeto, or the Origin of the Dutch, not printed until 1626
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It was in 1618 that he abandoned poetry for history, and in 1626 he published the first of his great See also: prose See also: works, the History of See also: Henry the Great (Henry IV. of
See also: France)
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His next production was his Miseries of the Princes of the See also: House of See also: Medici (Amsterdam, 1638)
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In 1642 he published at Amsterdam a folio comprising the first twenty books of his Dutch History, embracing the See also: period from 1555 to 1585, a magnificent performance, to the perfecting of which he had given fifteen years of labour
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The seven concluding books were published posthumously in 1654
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His idea of history was gained from Tacitus, whose works he translated . Hooft died on a visit to the Hague, whither he had gone to attend the funeral of PrinceSee also: Frederick Henry, on the 21st of May 1647, and was buried in the New See also: Church at Amsterdam
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Hoof t is one of the most brilliant figures that adorn Dutch literature at its best period
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He was the first writer to introduce a
See also: modern and See also: European See also: tone into belles lettres, and the first to refresh the See also: sources of native thought from the springs of See also: antique and See also: Renaissance poetry
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His lyrics and his pastoral of Granida are strongly marked by the influence of Tasso and See also: Sannazaro; his later tragedies belong more exactly to the See also: familiar tone of his native country
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But high as Hooft stands among the Dutch poets, he stands higher—he holds perhaps the highest place—among writers of Dutch prose
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His See also: historical See also: style has won the warmest eulogy from so temperate a critic as Motley, and his letters are the most charming ever published in the Dutch language
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After Vondel, he may on the whole be considered the most considerable author that Holland has produced
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Hooft's poetical and dramatic works were collected in two volumes (1871, 1875) by P
.
Leendertz
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His letters were edited by B
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Huydecoper (Leiden, 1738) and by van Vloten (Leiden, 4 vols., 1855)
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The best See also: original account of Hooft is given by G
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Brandt in his Leven van P
.
C
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Hooft (1677), and his funeral address (1647), edited together by J
.
C
.
Matthes (See also: Groningen, 1874)
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There is an account of the See also: Maiden circle in Edmund Gosse's Literatures of See also: Northern See also: Europe
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Many See also: editions exist of his prose works
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