Laevinus Torrentius

A portrait of Laevinus Torrentius engraved by [[Cornelis Galle the Elder]] after [[Gijsbert van Veen]], with an epigraph by [[Joannes Bochius]] Laevinus Torrentius, born Lieven van der Beke (1525–1595), was the second bishop of Antwerp and one of the leading humanists of his time. He was a Neo-Latin poet, who achieved fame as the editor of Suetonius and Horace. spending many years in Rome in his youth, he developed a serious interest in ancient numismatics. He possessed a large library of about 1,700 books. Provided by Wikipedia
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