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Prescribing Ovid

By Yasmin Haskell

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Prescribing Ovid

By Yasmin Haskell

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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'.
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
282
Release Date:
2013-03-28
Publication Date:
2013-03-28
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0715637231
ISBN13:
9780715637234
Weight:
590 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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