Author: 1709. JUVENALIS, Decius Junius, & Aulus Persius FLACCUS
Title: Alle de schimpdigten van Decius Junius Juvenalis en A. Persius Flaccus door verscheide Dichteren in Nederduitse vaarzen overgebracht.
Description: Haarlem, Wilhelmus van Kessel, 1709. Leather-backed boards. 2 parts in 1 volume. (38), 330; (20), 66p. With engraved frontispiece by J. Goeree. 1st edition. Some coloring of the frontispiece and a few other unimportant stains. Shaken. 'All the satirical poems of Decius Junius Juvenalis and A. Persius Flaccus translated into Dutch verse by various poets.' Collection of Dutch translations from Juvenal's Satyrae and Persius, too. Dedicated in print to young Lukas Schermer, a most talented poet and translator, who was already very ill and doomed to die (1688-1712), but managed to write a great many poems in his short life plus a number of translations from Latin and Greek. In this book several of Juvenal's Satires that contain homosexual passages, were translated into Dutch by different poets. By comparing, we get an impression about how some 17th century Dutchmen looked at the mysterious phenomenon.

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