The wedding of Frederick of Pfalz to Elizabeth Stuart in 1613 was one of the great public events in the reign of James I. Much was written about it in a number of languages; this essay investigates the poetic reception in English, Latin and other languages represented in the anthologies edited for or soon after this occasion. Special interest is paid to texts which hail Frederick as a Protestant hero whose future deeds might redraw the map of Europe, shattering the existing Catholic supremacy.
Aretius, I. (1613) Primula veris seu Pangyrica ad Excellentis. Principem Palatinum … Carmen Seculare, etc. Itemque In Nuptias Illustris. Principp. Fredrici & Elizabethae Meletemata, London, Typis G. Stansby. Impensis I. Budge.
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Beschreibung (1613) Beschreibung der Reiss und Emppfahung des Ritterlichen Ordens, [n.p.]: G. Vogelins Verlag.
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The Carmen Gratulans (1975) Carmen Gratulans Adventu Serenissimi Principis Frederici Comitis Palatini Ad Academiam Cantabrigiensem, vols. I-II, ed. Philip Clarence Dust), Salzburg: Salzburg Studies in English Literature, Elizabethan and Renaissance Studies.
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Donne, J. (1955) Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, London: The Nonesuch Library .
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Epithalamia (1613) Epithalamia sive Lusus Palatini in Nuptias … Frederici … et Elisabethae, Oxford: Jos. Barnesius.
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Franchis, Joannes Maria (1613) De auspicatissimis nuptiis Principis Frederici Sacri Romani Imperii Archidiapferi et Electoris Comitis. Poema, [n.p.].
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Gellius, John (1613) Epithalamium et Gratulatio, Heidelberg.
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Heywood T. [1642] (1842) A Marriage Triumph, London .
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Magnusson, Magnus (ed.) (1996) Chambers Biographical Dictionary, Edinburgh: Chambers .
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Nichols, J. (1828) The Progresses, Processions and Magnificent Festivities of King James the First, vol. II, London .
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Peacham, H. (1613) The Period of Mourning, Disposed into sixe Visions in Memorie of the late Prince together with Nuptiall Hymnes in Honour of this Happy Marriage, London: printed for John Helme and are to be sold in Saint Dunstanes churchyard in Fleatstreet .
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Szabó, K. (1879-98) Régi magyar könyvtár, vol. III, Budapest.
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Taylor, J. (1973) All the Works of Iohn Taylor the Water-Poet, facsimile reprint of 1630 edn, London .
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Threnodia (1613) Threnodia in Obitum … Sir Thomas Bodlei, Oxford: Jos. Barnesius.
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Wither, G. (1612) EPITHALAMIA or Nuptiall Poems upon the Most Blessed and Happie Marriage between … Frederick the Fifth … and … Princesse Elizabeth, London: imprinted for Edward Marchant .
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Wood, Anthony A. (1815) Fasti Oxonienses, Part I. From the Year 1500 to the Year 1640, London .
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Yates, Frances A. (1972) The Rosicrucian Enlightenment, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul .
