Peter Paul Rubens and his Brother Philip's Poems on Samson and Judith

Abstract

I n 1611, Peter Paul Rubens's beloved elder Philip in ancient funerary style.5 A special brother Philip died, at the age of only chapter was devoted to a group of Philip's thirty-seven. A pupil of Justus Lipsius in poems 'brought to light and extracted from Leuven, Philip Rubens was among the his notebooks'.6Towards the conclusion of most promising Flemish Latinists of his this chapter there are three epigrams on time.1 Lipsius himself had expressed the two Old Testament figures: the first poem wish that Philip would one day succeed extols the tyrannicide Judith; the other two him in his professorship.2 Four years after concern Samson's betrayal by Delilah. The Philip's death, the Plantin press in Antwerp first of the Samson poems reads: published a volume consisting of an edition T c „ , „ ^ 0 In Sampsonem ajemina superatum. and Latin translation of the sermons of Qui genus humanuni superavit robore Sampson, St Asterius, the manuscript of which Philip Femineis tandem vincitur insidiis. had discovered in Rome, together with Sic et feminea vis Herculis arte doloque selected poems, letters and public speeches Occidit. o magnis sexus inique viris!7