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Pieter Gillis

Summary

Pieter Gillis (28 July 1486 – 6 or 11 November 1533), known by his anglicised name Peter Giles, the gallicized Pierre Gilles and sometimes the Latinised Petrus Ægidius, was a humanist, printer, and secretary to the city of Antwerp in the early sixteenth century.[2] He is most famous as a friend and supporter of Desiderius Erasmus and Thomas More.[3] He seemed to have recommended the painter Hans Holbein the Younger to the court of England, where Thomas More received him delighted.[3]

Peter Giles
Born28 July 1486
Antwerp
Died6 or 11 November 1533 (aged 47)
Antwerp
NationalityBrabantian
Other namesPetrus Ægidius, Peter Giles, Peter Gilles, Pierre Gilles
Occupationmagistrate of Antwerp[1]
Known forfriendship with Sir Thomas More and Erasmus
Spouse(s)Cornelia Sandrien, Maria Denis Adriaensdochter, Kathelijne Draeckx[2]
A woodcut of three men outdoors with another man walking towards them.
Pieter Gillis as Pet. Aegid. talks with Thomas More, Raphael Hythlodæus and another character in an illustration by Ambrosius Holbein for Utopia.

Thomas More's Utopia, although fictional, includes Pieter Gillis as a character in Book I. More dedicated Utopia to Gillis, who may have designed the Utopian alphabet. They first met when diplomatic business brought More and Cuthbert Tunstall to Antwerp.[1]

References edit

  1. ^ a b William Holden Hutton, Sir Thomas More, London: Methuen & Co., 1895 (available through Google Books)
  2. ^ a b Centrum Pieter Gillis, University of Antwerp (in Dutch)
  3. ^ a b Holbein, Zeichnungen vom Hofe Heinrichs VIII. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers. 1988. p. 9. ISBN 0 384 23843 2.