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128. See appendix 1A.
129. "15.10.1617. Desen man wesende een seer
constryck plaat snyder hebbe ick familiare gekendt maer
erinnere hern met droeftheit also hy vander aughsburss-
che confessie synde daer nast paepen, oni vanden vleesch
pott Egipti nyet te wycken ende des schoon stadt van
Antwerpen nyet to verlaten"; quoted from Hamilton
1980, p. 331.
130. De Kempenaer wrote these words in die mar-
gin of his own copy of Sweerts 1613, p. 83 (see note 12).
On the biography of De Kempenaer, see Hamilton 1980.
The versatile humanist settled in Antwerp around 1578,
where he soon became acquainted with many leading
humanists, including Plannn. He clearly never (perhaps
due to his manifest Calvinist sympathies) became truly
intimate with the heterodox circle of friends around the
Officina Plantiniana. If he did become close friends with
Galle is an unanswered question, but it is a fact that the
printmaker in 1582 dedicated a large series of hunts,
engraved after designs by Hans Bol, to De Kempenaer;
see Hollstein, vol. 7, p. 81, nos. 568-622. More than their
mutual agreement on religion, it might have been their
anti-Spanish commitment which united them; see
Hamilton 1980, p. 295, regarding Galle's political opin­
ions, see below.
131. See chapter 4, note 331.
132. Galle s opinions run remarkably parallel to
what is known of his two collaborators in Haarlem,
Hadrianus Junius and Maarten van Heemskerck; see
Veldman 1974 and Veldman 1987. Both did stay within
the Catholic Church, although parts of their opinions
come close to the creeds of the Reformed Churehes.
133. See Hamilton 1981a, pp. 65-82. Also see
chapter 4.
134. On Mercator's religious convictions, see De
Nave 1994, pp. 17 and 51-56.
135. On 1 October 1579 Philips Galle contributed
a drawing and a dedication to the album amicorum of
Marnix's son Jacob; KalfF 1911, pp. 24-25. Calvinist
acquaintances outside Antwerp were, for instance, the
Dutch historian Emanuel van Meteren (see chapter 2,
Notes Chapter 1
161
note 31 and chapter 4, note 86) and the Dutch military
leader and statesman Janus Dousa (see Sellink 1991-92,
pp. 154-155 and chapter 2, passim).
136. See Sellink 1991-92 and chapter 4, note 28
and further.
137. A genera! overview of the political and reli­
gious developments in the Netherlands during this peri­
od is given in Parker 1986 and AGN, vol. 6, pp. 146-214.
The views on religious tolerance in the circles around
William of Orange are elucidated in Van Deursen 1984.
On Plantin s views in this respect, see chapter 2, note 84.
138. "Een cort verhael van de gedincweerdichste
saken die in de xvij. Provincien vande Nederlanden van
daghe tot daghe geschiet zijn sedert den iare ons Heeren
M.D.LXVI. totten iare M.DX.XXIX". On the genesis
and the contents of the book, see Vermaseren 1957. On
the original map of the Netherlands - which is known to
have existed, but of which only later editions have been
traced as yet - see Schilder 1986, vol. 2, pp. 111-122 and
Schilder 1987.
139. On the various editions of the book, see Voet
1980-83, vol. 3, pp. 977-980. The two different versions
of the Dutch text, which Voet knew to exist from the
Plantin archives but had not traced, can be found in the
Royal Library Albert I in Brussels: inv. nos. LPVH 26.327
A and LPVH 26.328 A respectively.The typography only
differs in meticulous details, but there are clearly two dif­
ferent versions.
140. Brevis rerum (1578).Reprinted in Feyerabend
1580, vol. 2, pp. 179-182. Another edition of this compi­
lation of studies by various authors was published in 1583;
Feyerabend 1583.
141. See Vermaseren 1957 and Van der Heijden
1997. As Vermaseren notes, the Dutch and French edi­
tions of Galle s booklet, were dedicated to a Jan de
Bourgogne, a high official from the circle around William
of Orange.
142. The view of Maastricht, dated 1579, is
engraved after Hans Bol.This extremely rare etched map
- I only know of a copy in the Albertina in Vienna (inv
HB 56,1 Bl. 5) - is only mentioned in passing in Denuce
1912-13, vol. l.p. 225.The typographically printed text