Nicolaus Grudius

Nicolaus Grudius (1504–1570) was a Dutch Neo-Latin poet.

Quotes

• Pergit opus Veneris variis disponere formis,
  Et docilem molli flectere ab arte natem,
  Dum quaesita Venus totis guttata medullis
  Perfluat, et dulci laxa labore cadat.
  • Describing Julia, the mistress of Johannes Secundus. Letter to Hadrianus Marius and Johannes Secundus, Mechlin, 29 May 1532. — Clifford Endres, Johannes Secundus: The Latin Love Elegy in the Renaissance (Hamden, CT: Archon Books, Shoe String Press, 1981), p. 25

External links

• J. P. Guépin, De drie dichtende broers Grudius, Marius, Secundus in brieven, reisverslagen en gedichten (Groningen: Styx, 2000)

• Peter Godman, "Johannes Secundus and Renaissance Latin Poetry" [Review of Endres 1981], The Review of English Studies, vol. 39, no. 154 (1988), pp. 258–72