Epitaphium, ofte graf-dicht op 't overlyden vanden sinrijcken Poeets G. A. Brederode (s.l. s.n.)
Elegies after the death of Bredero.
Digitized later edition at https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/stui002memo01_01/stui002memo01_01_0041.php
Original title page (with portrait of Bredero) is missing (cut out?)
This edition of Elegies (Lijck-dichten) shows clearly the status of Bredero as a local celebrity at that very moment. Such a publication was unprecedented, and it demonstrates how popular the poet was among his fellow citizens. They all strongly and intensely experienced the loss. The elegies were written by different poets, including famous Dutch authors like Samuel Coster, Petrus Scriverius and Joost van den Vondel. It marks Bredero’s decease as a moment at which Amsterdam authors sing the praises of their popular and much-loved former colleague. The poems predominantly breathe the usual funeral topics of praise, grief and consolation. But the very first of all these poems, a lengthy `Epitaph, or elegy on the death of the significant poet G.A. Bredero’ (`Epitaphium. Oft Graf-dicht Op ’t overlyden vanden sinrijcken Poeet G.A. Brederood’), tells its readers how Bredero died a sudden death, (probably heart failure).
Treurspel van Roddrick ende Alphonsus -- Moortje -- Spaanschen Brabander Ierolimo -- Griane -- Overghesette Lucelle -- Stommen ridder
Keywords: Bredero, Gerbrand Adriaenszoon -- 1585-1618; 17th Century (1601-1700); Poetry; Death; Poet; Netherlands