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Adriaan Demuynck (KU Leuven / FWO) On 27 February 1565, the new city hall of Antwerp was formally inaugurated, exactly four years after the first stone was laid. To adorn the opening of this prestigious Renaissance building, two young poets joined forces and wrote a collection of city encomia or laudes urbis on the cityContinue reading “Laudes urbium, ἐγκώμια φίλων: Two friends writing city encomia and congratulating each other”