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Title: PRESCRIBING OVID
THE LATIN WORKS AND NETWORKS OF THE ENLIGHTENED DR HEERKENS
By: Yasmin Haskell
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 1472587502
ISBN 13: 9781472587503
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Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC
Pub. date: 25 September, 2014
Pages: 280
Description: Explores the intellectual and identity politics of Latin language use in the Enlightenment 'Republic of Letters' via the figure of Gerard Nicolaas Heerkens (1728-1801), a Dutch physician and Latin poet, disenchanted disciple of Voltaire, and lifelong devotee of Ovid.
Synopsis: Gerard Nicolaas Heerkens was a cosmopolitan Dutch physician and Latin poet of the eighteenth century. A Catholic, he was in many ways an outsider on his own turf, the peat country of Protestant Groningen, and looked to Voltaire's Paris, much as Ovid, in exile, had looked to Rome. An indefatigable traveller and networker, Heerkens mixed freely with philosophers, physicians, churchmen and antiquarians. This book reconstructs his Latin works and networks, and reveals in the process a virtually unexplored corner of eighteenth-century culture, the 'Latin Enlightenment'.
Illustrations: 7 bw illus
Publication: UK
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
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