Lucas Fruytier

Lucas Fruytier, Latinized Fruterius (1541–1566) was a New Latin poet from the Low Countries.

Fruytier was born in Bruges in 1541. At an early age he gained a reputation for an elegant command of Latin. In Paris in 1565 he became friends with Janus Dousa and Janus Lernutius. He died in Paris in 1566, his early death attributed to drinking cold water too quickly after a vigorous tennis match.[1] Victor Giselinus composed a Latin epitaph.

Publications

His writings were edited for posthumous publicaiton by Janus Dousa:

  • Lucae Fruterii Brugensis, librorum, qui recuperari potuerunt, reliquiae: inter quos Verisimilium libri duo et versus miscelli (Antwerp, 1584)[2]
gollark: They're still very happy to randomly spend money because the incentives to spend it on useful things are lacking.
gollark: Yes. That.
gollark: What now?
gollark: Paying them a lot is actually somewhat good in that it hopefully attracts better people, and makes them less likely to take money from others.
gollark: > If they're fit to rule they will survive.I mean, kind of? If you randomly remove governments *somehow* when they run into some kind of issue, I figure you would introduce far more problems.

References
  1. A.J. van der Aa, ed. (1859). "Fruytier (Lucas)". Biographisch woordenboek der Nederlanden. 6. Haarlem. pp. 261–262.
  2. On Google Books
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