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ERICIO PUTEANO was one of the two sources for CORNEILLE's history of PERTARITO (the other is DIACONO) on which Salvi's melodramma is based.
Ericio Puteano (4 November 1574 – 17 September 1646) was a
humanist and philologist from the Low Countries.
Ericio Puteano was
born in Venlo and studied at the schools of Dordrecht and Cologne (College of
the Three Crowns), where he took the degree of Master of Arts, 28 February 1595.
Puteano then followed, at Leuven, the lectures on ancient history given
by Giusto Lipsius.
In 1597 he travelled to Italy and met scholars, especially
Cardinal Federigo Borromeo, through whom he was appointed professor of Latin at
the Palatine School of Milano from 1600 to 1606.
Then the States of Brabant
offered him the chair left vacant by Lipsius at Leuven.
He taught at
the Collegium Trilingue at the University of Leuven for forty years. '
He was
loaded with favours by reigning princes.
The Archduke Albert appointed him his
honorary counsellor (1612), and increased his annual pension by 200 ducats
(1614), adding the reversion of Château-César.
At the same time he filled, after
1603, the post of historiographer to Philip III of Spain, on behalf of the
Milanese, with other appointments.
His outspoken language provoked political
animosities, and he was almost driven into exile by request of King James I of
England, who wrongly believed him to be the author of Corona Regia (1615), a
scandalous satire about James's parentage and behaviour.
He fathered 17
children, and died in Leuven.
Puteanus was an encyclopedist.
In one
period of his literary activity (1603–19), he detached himself from Lipsius by
aiming at personal leadership of a school.
He then went back to chronological
works.
As a philologist some of his dissertations were reproduced in the
Thesauri of Grævius and Gronovius.
For the history of the numerous
writings and editions of Erycius Puteanus see Roersch and Vanderhaegen in
Bibliotheca Belgica (1904-5), nos. 166, 167, 168, 171, Roersch in Biographie
Nationale de Belgique, XVIII (1904), Simar, Etude sur Erycius Puteanus
(Louvain, 1909)
Notes: A latinization of Hendrick van den Putte,
Errijck de Put or Eric van der Putte.
Categories: 1574
births, 1646 deaths, 17th-century Latin-language writers, Linguists from
the Netherlands, Dutch Renaissance humanists, Encyclopedists, People from
Venlo, University of Leuven faculty
Thursday, June 4, 2015
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