The Early Dutch Enlightenment as a Factor in the Wider European Enlightenment

Commercial Republicanism in the Dutch Golden Age

“…as both Vondel and ogilby realized, the aesopian world populated by animals enabled allegorical representations of good government and the colourful parody of opponents. 141 The Fable's Two Handles this short survey reveals that the De la Courts' employment of fables clearly followed an established and successful literary practice that countered the repudiation of the genre by classical and late humanist rhetorical theory. in all the brothers' treatises, parabolic fables play a prominent role, culminating in the Sinryke Fabulen which consists of a hundred different fables with the extra explanatory force of emblematic engravings.…”

“…Haitsma mulier (Florence: Centro Editoriale Toscano, 1983), 128-129: "diversità d'interessi … che finalmente sia per ridursi di nuovo sotto il governo d'un solo." 37 Boxhorn,Commentariolus,[146][147][148][149]idem,[141][142][143][144] in his classes, Boxhorn paid close attention to rome's demise from a republic into a principality. See the collection of disputations, held by his students in the 1640s as training in rhetoric, appended to Boxhorn, Emblemata politica.…”

“…as the argument of the De la Courts goes: 141 Politike Discoursen ii.Vi.5, p. 182: "indien niet alle Burgerschap, en Vergadering, door onderlinge vreese veroorsaakt, en by een gebragt wierd; soo soude de mensch gelijk de Kinderen, alles wat hem aanstond, of lusten mogte, begeeren te verkrygen; sulks hy sijn lusten niet boetende, het selven naa-laat door de vreese die de Tugt, en de Reeden in hem heeft gebragt. "…”

“…in the course of the 1660s and 1670s, they continued to take the Batavian model of grotius as their authoritative starting point. 141 While the brothers De la Court and their few allies rallied behind the radical claim that a true republic is free of any monarchical element, the Orangist interpretation in the end won over the middle groups in society. after 1672, Dutch republicanism would merge this support for the House of Orange with the language of commercial interest that was put at centre stage in the work of the brothers De la Court.…”

The cry of the royal blood:revenge tragedy and the Stuart cause in the Dutch Republic

“…61 In the tumultuous rst half of 1653, that crisis culminated. 62 In February, Grand Pensionary Pauw had sent a letter to Parliament in which he expressed Holland's desire for peace. Unfortunately for Holland, Tromp was routed in the Battle of Portland soon a erwards (28 February-2 March 1653 NS), 63 and an outright English victory rather than a diplomatic peace was at hand.…”