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Prescribing Ovid
The Latin Works and Networks of the Enlightened Dr Heerkens
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About this book
Gerard Nicolaas Heerkens was a cosmopolitan Dutch physician and Latin poet of the eighteenth century. A Catholic, he was in many ways an outsider on his own turf, the peat country of Protestant Groningen, and looked to Voltaire's Paris, much as Ovid, in exile, had looked to Rome. An indefatigable traveller and networker, Heerkens mixed freely with philosophers, physicians, churchmen and antiquarians. This book reconstructs his Latin works and networks, and reveals in the process a virtually unexplored corner of eighteenth-century culture, the 'Latin Enlightenment'.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- HalfTitle
- Frontipiece
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Cultivating the Two Apollos
- 1 Finding His Feet: Six or Five?
- 2 Stepping Out: Healing the Republic of Letters
- 3 Tomi Calling: Letters to/from Italy
- 4 Writing Home: Lessons from Italy
- 5 Patriots in Portraits: From National to Natural History
- 6 Inscriptions and Prescriptions: The Art of Healing in Long and Short
- Conclusion: Notes from the Margins
- Appendix Published Works of Gerard Nicolaas Heerkens
- Bibliography
- Index
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