"Pergit opus Veneris variis disponere formis, Et docilem molli flectere ab arte natem, Dum quaesita Venus totis guttata medullis Perfluat, et dulci laxa labore cadat."
— Nicolaus Grudius

January 1, 1970

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Describing Julia, the mistress of Johannes Secundus. Letter to Hadrianus Marius and Johannes Secundus, Mechlin, 29 May 1532. — Clifford Endres, Johannes Secundus: The Latin Love Elegy in the Renaissance (Hamden, CT: Archon Books, Shoe String Press, 1981), p. 25