Richard Rowlands Verstegan: A Versatile Man in an Age of Turmoil

238 Pages·2012·2.226 MB·English

by  Romana Zacchi, Massimiliano Morini (eds.)

Richard Rowlands Verstegan
LATE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN STUDIES
Editorial Board under the auspices of
The Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne,
and the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Ian Moulton, Chair Arizona State University
Frederick Kiefer University of Arizona
Markus Cruse Arizona State University
Stephanie Trigg University of Melbourne
Charles Zika University of Melbourne
Advisory Board
Jaynie Anderson University of Melbourne
Susan Broomhall University of Western Australia
Megan Cassidy-Welch Monash University
Albrecht Classen University of Arizona
Robert W. Gaston La Trobe University
John Griffiths University of Melbourne
Anthony Gully Arizona State University
Catherine Kovesi University of Melbourne
Paul Salzman La Trobe University
Anne Scott Northern Arizona University
Juliann Vitullo Arizona State University
Emil Volek Arizona State University
Retha Warnicke Arizona State University
Previously published volumes in this series are listed at the back of the book.
Volume 14
Richard Rowlands Verstegan
A Versatile Man in an Age of Turmoil
Edited by
Romana Zacchi and Massimiliano Morini
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Richard Rowlands Verstegan : versatile man in an age of turmoil. --
(Late medieval and early modern studies ; 14)
1. Verstegan, Richard, ca. 1550-1640
2. Europe--Intellectual life--16th century.
3. Europe--Intellectual life--17th century.
4. Europe--Civilization--16th century.
5. Europe--Civilization--17th century.
6. Renaissance.
I. Series II. Zacchi, Romana editor of compilation.
III. Morini, Massimiliano editor of compilation.
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Contents
Illustrations vii
Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations of Works by Verstegan xi
Introduction xv
Part One. Verstegan as Philologist
Teutonic and Unmixed: Verstegan’s English
MASSIMILIANO MORINI 3
Searching for the Origins: Teutonic Past
and Contemporary England in Verstegan’s Thought
ALESSANDRO ZIRONI 19
Nederlantsche Antiquiteyten: Between Language and Religion
GIULIO GARUTI SIMONE 41
Part Two. Verstegan as a Social and Political Observer
Words and Images: Verstegan’s ‘Theatre of Cruelties’
ROMANA ZACChI 53
‘That kynde of man that is wombed’: Femininity and heroic Virtue
in the English Writings of Richard Verstegan
PAUL ARBLASTER 77
vi Contents
‘The Seven-headed Beast’: Myth and Allegory in
Richard Verstegan’s Polemic against the Northern Netherlands
hERMAN VAN DER hEIDE 97
Part Three. Verstegan as Poet and Storyteller
Richard Verstegan’s Penitential Odes
VALENTINA POGGI 117
‘What after nature liues, liues subject unto mee’:
Richard Verstegan and Otto van Veen’s Emblems of Love (1608)
TINA MONTONE 133
Richard Rowlands Verstegan’s Pyed Pyper:
Of Fantastical Cotes and Unkept Promises
SYLVIA NOTINI 179
Index 199
Illustrations
Figure 1, p. 65. Frontispiece of Theatrum crudelitatum haereticorum nostri
temporis (Antwerpen: hubert, 1587).
Figure 2, p. 92. The goddess Freya as represented by Richard Verstegan in his
A Restitution of decayed intelligence. Reproduced from a later edition of the
Dutch adaptation, Nederlantsche Antiquiteyten (Brussels, 1646).
Figure 3, p. 150. [Otto van Veen] ‘Nihil tam durum et ferreum, quod non amoris
telis perfringatur’, in Otto van Veen, Amorum emblemata (Antwerpen:
Swingen, 1608), p. 23.
Figure 4, p. 151. [Otto van Veen] ‘Ero navis amoris, habens te astrum lucidum’,
in Van Veen, Amorum emblemata, p. 39.
Figure 5, p. 152. [Otto van Veen] ‘Nocet esse locutum’, in Van Veen, Amorum
emblemata, p. 63.
Figure 6, p. 154. [Otto van Veen] ‘Vicit et superos Amor’, in Van Veen, Amorum
emblemata, p. 21.
Figure 7, p. 156. [Otto van Veen] ‘Negare iussi, pernegare non iussi’, in Van
Veen, Amorum emblemata, p. 179.
Figure 8, p. 157. [Otto van Veen] ‘Inversus crocodilus amor’, in Van Veen, Amorum
emblemata, p. 217.
Figure 9, p. 159. [Otto van Veen] ‘Auro conciliatur amor’, in Van Veen, Amorum
emblemata, p. 129.
Figure 10, p. 161. [Otto van Veen] ‘Et cum fortuna statque caditque fides’, in
Van Veen, Amorum emblemata, p. 157.
viii ILLUSTRATIONS
Figure 11, p. 163. [Otto van Veen] ‘Ad extremum’, in Van Veen, Amorum em­
blemata, p. 233.
Figure 12, p. 164. [Otto van Veen] ‘Durate’, in Van Veen, Amorum emblemata,
p. 211.
Figure 13, p. 166. [Otto van Veen] ‘Sero probatur amor, qui morte probatur’, in
Van Veen, Amorum emblemata, p. 247.
Figure 14, p. 172. [Otto van Veen] ‘Flammescit uterque’, in Van Veen, Amorum
emblemata, p. 135.