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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Reimér Anslo (1626–1669)

Anslo, Reimér (äns’lō). A Dutch poet; born at Amsterdam, 1626; died at Perugia, May 10, 1669. He is an imitator of Vondel, and one of the foremost Dutch poets of his time. He went to Italy and lived for many years in Rome, where he wrote his finest poems. His most famous work is ‘The Plague at Naples,’ and the next in importance ‘The Eve of St. Bartholomew,’ both epics.