The Correspondence of Dominicus Baudius. (1581-1613) in two volumes

This is the first critical edition of the letters of the northern European poet, rhetorician and historian Dominicus Baudius (1561-1613). It contains 463 letters, many published here for the first time. Baudius' Latin correspondence was printed fourteen times between 1615 and 1662, making it one of the most widely read letter-collections of the seventeenth century, but his habitual frankness ensured that his printed letters were heavily censored.
The present edition restores many missing passages, and it relegates the numerous conjectural supplements of seventeenth-century editors to the apparatus, where they can be studied as phenomena in their own right. Three-quarters of all the censorship which appeared in 1615 is reversed in the present edition, and much of what remains has been tentatively resolved. The restoration of the collection transforms a frustrating and sometimes misleading set of documents into a reliable and substantial source.