Roemer Visscher
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Roemer Pieterszoon Visscher (1547 - 19 February 1620) was a successful Dutch merchant and writer in the period often called the Dutch Golden Age.
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Works
The humanistic and moralistic content of his works belongs to the period of the Renaissance, although the form was more conservative and characteristic to the rederijkers. Visscher was a specialist in the epigram, but he also wrote emblemata. The emblemata is a genre in which pictures are accompanied by one or two rhyming sentences. An example of the emblemata is Visschers Sinnepoppen. One emblema is called "Elck wat wils" which is still a common expression in Dutch, meaning "To each his own".
Among his works are:
- T'loff vande mutse, ende van een blaewe scheen (1612)
- Brabbeling (1614)
- Sinnepoppen (1614)
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