Boeren- en overheids-strijd, ofte Het verooverde Middelburg - Beronicius, Petrus Johannes; Rabus, Pieter 1660-1702 (Amsterdam ten Hoorn, 1702)
Originally published as 'Georgarchontomachia' (1691)
P.J. Beronicius is probably a mystification; the real author might be Dirk Buysero Dutch librettist, playwright and poet (1644-1708)?
Beronicius (fl. 1650) was a mysterious character, possibly a monk who had eloped, a talented eccentric, who in the 17th century wandered through France, England and the Netherlands and spent a long time in Zeeland. He earned his living by sweeping chimneys, was often inebriated and drowned in a street gutter in such a state. Apart from modern languages, he mastered ancient languages with great virtuosity, spoke and wrote poetry in Latin and Greek. The most prominent of his poems is this burlesque comic-heroic poem in Latin hexameters about the raid of the Walchers in Middelburg in 1672.
Bound in with Dousa's 'Poemata' and engravings after Caspar Luyken, Dutch engraver and draughtsman (1672-1708)
In twee boeken. Heldendicht uit de vuist weg geschreven door N. een ooggetuige . Met vrijen trant vertaald / Libre duo. Carmine epico extemporaneo conscripti. Auctore N. Autopte
Keywords: 17th Century (1601-1700); History; Comedy; Middelburg (Netherlands); Buisero, D; Rabelais; Grieks; improvisatie; Willem III; Beronicius; Rabus, P