Olympiados
work by Noot
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- In Jan Baptista van der Noot
…and main poetical work, the Olympiados epic, he described in clear, unadorned language his dream of an allegorical journey toward his divine love, Olympia. Van der Noot interpolated numerous sonnets in the work, and their German translations are the earliest known instances of the pure sonnet in that language.
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