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The Legend Of Koster - Coornhert's Preface to Cicero - English
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Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert's preface to a translation of Cicero, Officia Ciceronis, leerende wat yeghelijck in allen staten behoort te doen (1561), wherein he affirms the claim of Haarlem being the birthplace of printing.

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Slider.com Encyclopeadia: Coornhert, Dirck Volckertszoon - English
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Coornhert, Dirck Volckertszoon - English
URL: http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0813454.html

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1522–90, Dutch humanist. His translation (1561) of the first 12 books of the Odyssey is considered the first major poetic work of the Dutch Renaissance. Coornhert also translated Cicero, Boccaccio, Seneca, and Boethius. His comedies, morality plays, and a philosophical treatise (1586) express his stoic and humanistic ideas.

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Coornhert, Dirck Volckertszoon - Britannica.com - English
URL: http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/0/0,5716,26590 1 26168,00.html

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Dutch poet, translator, playwright, and moralist who set down Humanist values for the first time in the vernacular. His clear, unpretentious prose style contrasted with that of the contemporary Rederijkers (rhetoricians) and served as a model to the great 17th-century Dutch writers. His book of songs Liedekens (1575) shows his determination to choose a form for the content and not vice versa.

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Coornhert, Dirck Volckertszoon - English
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1522–90, Dutch humanist. His translation (1561) of the first 12 books of the Odyssey is considered the first major poetic work of the Dutch Renaissance. Coornhert also translated Cicero, Boccaccio, Seneca, and Boethius. His comedies, morality plays, and a philosophical treatise (1586) express his stoic and humanistic ideas. Coornhert, who had witnessed the methods of the Inquisition, was an active supporter of religious tolerance; his pamphlet (1585) on this subject led to his imprisonment and exile. He eventually returned to Holland and died at Gonda.

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