Prescribing Ovid: The Latin Works and Networks of the Enlightened Dr HeerkensGerard 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, as 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'. |
Contents
Cultivating the Two Apollos | 1 |
Six or Five? | 33 |
Healing the Republic of Letters | 71 |
Letters tofrom Italy | 105 |
Lessons from Italy | 129 |
From National to Natural History | 155 |
The Art of Healing in Long and Short | 199 |
Notes from the Margins | 227 |
Appendix Published Works of Gerard Nicolaas Heerkens | 239 |
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