Jan van der Noot

Jonker Jan van der Noot was a Netherlandish writer who is regarded as the first Renaissance poet to write poetry in Dutch.

Life

Jan van der Noot was born to a noble family in Brecht, in the Duchy of Brabant, about halfway between Antwerp and Breda. In 1558 he moved to Antwerp and at some point became a Calvinist. In 1567, during the early stages of the Dutch Revolt, he was implicated in an attempted coup in Antwerp and fled to England.
His first work was published by John Day in Dutch and French editions in London as Het theatre oft toon-neel and Le theatre. The following year Edmund Spenser's English translation, A theatre wherein be represented as wel the miseries & calamities that follow the voluptuous worldlings, came out with Henry Bynneman. It was a combined work in verse and prose, reflecting on the deceits and shortcomings of the world.
In 1571 Van der Noot was in Cleves, and in 1572 in Cologne. He eventually returned to Antwerp. Ironically, he was now a Catholic and the city was coming under the rule of Calvinists. In Antwerp he produced a series of volumes of new verse, all with the title De poeticsche werken. He died in 1595.

Works

Het theatre oft toon-neel: waer in ter eender de ongelucken ende elenden die den werelts gesinden ende boosen menschen toecomen
*Le theatre auquel sont exposés et monstrés les inconveniens et miseres qui suivent les mondains et vicieux
*A theatre wherein be represented as wel the miseries & calamities that follow the voluptuous worldlings, translated by Edmund Spenser
Het bosken. Inhoudende verscheyden poëtixe wercken
Verscheiden poetixe wercken
Das buch Extasis
Cort begryp der XII boeken Olympiados. Abrege des douze livres Olympiades. . Accessed 9 November 2015.
Lofsang van Braband. Hymne de Braband
Verscheyden poetische werken. Divers oeuvres poetiques
Verscheyden poeticsche werken; divers oeuvres poetiques
De poetische werken
De poeticsche werken
De poeticsche werken
De poeticsche werken
De poeticsche werken. . Accessed 9 November 2015.
De poeticsche werken
De poeticsche werken
De poeticsche vverken. . Accessed 9 November 2015.
De poeticsche werken
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