Herman Hugo was a Jesuit priest, writer and military chaplain. His Pia desideria, a spiritual emblem book published in Antwerp in 1624, was "the most popular religious emblem book of the seventeenth century". It went through 42 Latin editions and was widely translated up to the 18th century.
Writers born in the 1580s 6
About this person
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1588 to 1629 · aged 41
Written about in
8 languages
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