He made himself conspicuous by issuing a pamphlet in justification of the iconoclasts who devastated Flanders in , and on Alva's arrival next year had to fly the country. After spending some time in Friesland and in the Palatinate he was in 1 5 70 taken into the service of William, prince of Orange, and in was sent as his representative to the first meeting of the States-general assembled at Dordrecht.
In he was taken prisoner by the Spaniards at Maaslandsluys, but was exchanged in the following year. He was sent as the representative of the insurgent provinces to Paris and London, where he in vain attempted to secure the effective assistance of Queen Elizabeth.
Marnix de Sainte-Aldegonde (French Edition) [Edgar Quinet] on www.farmersmarketmusic.com * FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. This work has been selected by scholars as . Philippe de Marnix de Sainte-Aldegonde naquit à Bruxelles en ; il descendait par son père d'un gentilhomme savoyard, qui, de la Tarantaise, avait suivi.
In he was at the diet of Worms, where he made an eloquent but fruitless appeal for aid to the German princes. Equally vain were his efforts in the same year to persuade the magistrates of Ghent to cease persecuting the Catholics in the city. In he surrendered the city, after a 13 months' siege, to the Spaniards.
Violently attacked by the English and by his own countrymen for this act, he retired from public affairs and, save for a mission to Paris in 1 , lived henceforth in Leiden or on his estate in Zeeland, where he worked at a translation of the Bible. He died at Leiden on the 15th of December St Aldegonde, or Marnix by which name he is very commonly known , is celebrated for his share in the great development of Dutc literature which followed the classical period represented by such writers as the poet and historian Pieter Hooft.
Of his works, the best known is the Roman Bee-hive De roomsche byen-korf , published in during his exile in Friesland, a bitter satire on the faith and practices of the Roman Catholic Church. As a poet, St.
His complete works, edited by Lacroix and Quinet , were published at Brussels in 7 volumes — , and his religious and theological writings, edited by Van Toorenenbergen, at The Hague, in 4 volumes — Less known to the general public is his work as a cryptographer. Aldegonde is considered to be the first Dutch cryptographer cfr.
For Stadholder William the Silent , he deciphered secret messages that were intercepted from the Spaniards. His interest in cryptography possibly shows in the Wilhelmus , where the first letters of the couplets form the name Willem van Nassov , i.
William 'the Silent' of Nassau , the Prince of Orange, but such acrostics - and far more intricate poetic devices - were a common feature of the Rederijker school in the Lowlands. There is a marble sculpture of him by Paul de Vigne in Brussels. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
He studied theology under Calvin and Beza at Geneva and, returning to the Netherlands in , threw himself energetically into the cause of the Reformation, taking an active part in the compromise of the nobles in and the assembly of St Trond. Don't have a Kindle? Lists with This Book. Nabu Press November 16, Language: He issued a pamphlet in justification of the iconoclastic movement Beeldenstorm which devastated many churches in Flanders in , and on the Duke of Alba 's arrival next year had to flee the country. If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support?
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