Cornelius Grapheus

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'''Cornelius Grapheus''' (1482 – 19 December 1558), Latinized from '''Cornelis De Schrijver''', was a secretary to the city of Antwerp and writer.

==Life== Grapheus was born in Aalst, County of Flanders, in 1482. His brother was Joannes Grapheus, the printer who also settled in Antwerp.<ref name="AJO">{{cite journal |last1=Juhász-Ormsby |first1=Ágnes |title=Nickolas Udall's "Floures for Latine Spekynge": An Erasmian Textbook |journal=Humanistica Lovaniensia |date=2003 |volume=52 |pages=137–158 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/23974205.pdf |issn=0774-2908}}</ref> As a young man Cornelius travelled in Italy. When Thomas More's ''Utopia'' was first printed in 1516, Grapheus provided some liminary verses. [[File:Cornelis De Schrijver Cornelis Grapheus 28juli.png|thumb|Statue of Cornelius Grapheus, on the gebiedshuisje nearby the Belfry of Aalst.]] By 1520 he was secretary to the city of Antwerp, writing a Latin panegyric to greet Charles V on his return to that city from Spain. In 1522 he was arrested on accusation of heresy, was taken to Brussels for questioning, and made a full recantation.<ref>S.B.J. Zilverberg, "Grapheus, Cornelis", ''Biografisch Lexicon voor de Geschiedenis van het Nederlands Protestantisme'', vol. 4 (Kampen, 1998), 148-149.</ref> In 1523 he was set at liberty and returned to Antwerp, where he became a teacher. In 1540 he was reinstated as secretary to the city, and in 1549 he was again involved in the public welcome of a visiting prince, in this case Philip II of Spain. He died in Antwerp on 19 December 1558.

==Works== *''Divi Caroli imp. caes. opt. max. desyderatissimus ex Hispania in Germaniam reditus'' (Antwerp, Michiel Hillen van Hoochstraten, 1520). [https://books.google.com/books?id=5NhWAAAAcAAJ Available on Google Books]. *''Ex Publii Terentii comoediis latinissime colloquiorum formulae'' (Vienna, 1529). [https://books.google.com/books?id=9r5RAAAAcAAJ Available on Google Books]. **Reprinted Mainz, 1537 – [https://books.google.com/books?id=_Wc6AAAAcAAJ available on Google Books]. *''Spectaculorum in susceptione Philippi'' (Antwerp, Gillis Coppens van Diest for Pieter Coecke van Aelst, 1550). [https://archive.org/details/spectaculorvmins00grap Available on Internet Archive]. **Dutch translation as ''De seer wonderlijcke, schoone, triumphelijcke incompst, van den hooghmogenden Prince Philips'' (Antwerp, Gillis Coppens van Diest for Pieter Coecke van Aelst, 1550). [https://books.google.com/books?id=l7NNAAAAcAAJ Available on Google Books]. **French translation as ''Le Triumphe d'Anvers, faict en la susception du Prince Philips'' (Antwerp, 1550). [https://books.google.com/books?id=rO5SAAAAcAAJ Available on Google Books].

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