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Title: 'En zouden wy geen vrienden zyn?'
Author(s): DIBBETS, G.R.W.
Journal: Spiegel der Letteren
Volume: 41    Issue: 4   Date: 1999   
Pages: 279-306
DOI: 10.2143/SDL.41.4.630081

Abstract :
The letters exchanged between the seventeenth century Dutch ministers Joannes Vollenhove and Geeraerdt Brandt give the impression of a correspondence between two equivalent friends. But this impression is only correct as far as it concerns the poethood: religious and political differences stood in the way of a real and public friendship.

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