{{Short description|Dutch Renaissance writer and poet (1539–1595)}} {{Infobox writer <!--For more information, see [[:Template:Infobox Writer/doc]].--> | name = Jan Baptista van der Noot | honorific_prefix = Jonker | honorific_suffix = | image = Jonker Jan van der Noot (1539-1595).gif | image_size = | alt = | caption = A portrait of Jan van der Noot engraved by [[Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert]] (1573) | native_name = | native_name_lang = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = 1539 <!-- {{birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | birth_place = [[Brecht, Belgium|Brecht]] | death_date = 1595 <!-- {{death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | death_place = [[Antwerp]] | resting_place = | occupation = | language = Dutch | nationality = [[Duchy of Brabant|Brabantine]] | ethnicity = | citizenship = | education = | alma_mater = | period = [[Renaissance]] | genre = verse <!-- or: | genres = --> | subject = <!-- or: | subjects = --> | movement = [[La Pléiade]] | notableworks = ''De poeticsche werken'' (multiple volumes 1580–1594) | spouse = <!-- or: | spouses = --> | partner = <!-- or: | partners = --> | children = | relatives = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | years_active = | module = | website = | portaldisp = <!-- "on", "yes", "true", etc; or omit --> }} Jonker '''Jan van der Noot''' (1539–1595) was a [[Habsburg Netherlands|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, Belgium|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.<ref name=Willems>[[Léonard Willems]], "Noot (Jean-Baptiste vander)", ''[[Biographie Nationale de Belgique]]'', [http://www.academieroyale.be/academie/documents/FichierPDFBiographieNationaleTome2057.pdf vol. 15] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160326121400/http://www2.academieroyale.be/academie/documents/FichierPDFBiographieNationaleTome2057.pdf |date=2016-03-26 }} (Brussels, 1899), 866–877.</ref>
His first work was published by [[John Day (printer)|John Day]] in Dutch and French editions in London (1568) 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.<ref name=Willems/> Ironically, he was now a Catholic and the city was coming under the rule of Calvinists.<ref name=Willems/> In Antwerp he produced a series of volumes of new verse, all with the title ''De poeticsche werken''. He died in 1595.<ref name=Willems/>
== Works == * ''Het theatre oft toon-neel: waer in ter eender de ongelucken ende elenden die den werelts gesinden ende boosen menschen toecomen'' ([London, John Daye], 1568) **''Le theatre auquel sont exposés et monstrés les inconveniens et miseres qui suivent les mondains et vicieux'' (London, John Day, 1568) **''A theatre wherein be represented as wel the miseries & calamities that follow the voluptuous worldlings'', translated by [[Edmund Spenser]] (London, Henry Bynneman, 1569) * ''Het bosken. Inhoudende verscheyden poëtixe wercken'' (London, Henry Binneman & John Daye, [1570]) * ''Verscheiden poetixe wercken'' (Cologne, Gottfried Hirtshorn, 1572) * ''Das buch Extasis'' (Cologne, Felix Röschlin, Heinrich von Aich, 1576) * ''Cort begryp der XII boeken Olympiados. Abrege des douze livres Olympiades'' (Antwerp, Gilles van den Rade, 1579). [https://books.google.com/books?id=MTxHAAAAcAAJ Available on Google Books]. Accessed 9 November 2015. * ''Lofsang van Braband. Hymne de Braband'' (Antwerp, Gilles van den Rade, 1580) * ''Verscheyden poetische werken. Divers oeuvres poetiques'' (Antwerp, Gillis van den Rade, 1580) * ''Verscheyden poeticsche werken; divers oeuvres poetiques'' (Antwerp, Gilles van den Rade, 1581) * ''De poetische werken'' (Antwerp, Gillis van den Rade, 1584) * ''De poeticsche werken'' (Antwerp, Gillis van den Rade, 1585) * ''De poeticsche werken'' (Antwerp, Daniel Vervliet, 1588) * ''De poeticsche werken'' (Antwerp, Daniel Vervliet, 1590) * ''De poeticsche werken'' (Antwerp, [[Arnout Coninx]], 1591). [https://books.google.com/books?id=79dNAAAAcAAJ Available on Google Books]. Accessed 9 November 2015. * ''De poeticsche werken'' (Antwerp, Arnout Coninx, 1592) * ''De poeticsche werken'' (Antwerp, Arnould Coninx, 1593) * ''De poeticsche vverken'' (Antwerp, Daniel Vervliet, 1593). [https://books.google.com/books?id=Vv1OAAAAcAAJ Available on Google Books]. Accessed 9 November 2015. * ''De poeticsche werken'' (Antwerp, Daniel Vervliet, 1594) * ''Op de gheluckigheende heerlijke in-koomste Ernesto van Oostenrijck. Sur l'heureuse et magnifique entree du prince Erneste, archeduc d'Austrice'' (Antwerp, Arnout Coninx, 1594)
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