Petrus Ægidius, Peter Giles, Peter Gilles, Pierre Gilles
Occupation
magistrate of Antwerp[1]
Known for
friendship with Sir Thomas More and Erasmus
Spouse(s)
Cornelia Sandrien, Maria Denis Adriaensdochter, Kathelijne Draeckx[2]
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]
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]
^ abWilliam Holden Hutton, Sir Thomas More, London: Methuen & Co., 1895 (available through Google Books)
^ abCentrum Pieter Gillis, University of Antwerp (in Dutch)
^ abHolbein, Zeichnungen vom Hofe Heinrichs VIII. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers. 1988. p. 9. ISBN 0 384 23843 2.
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and letters by other humanists from the circle of Martens, including PieterGillis and Gerard Geldenhouwer. Though no other Martens' editions are known...
Theodorus Gaza to him. He is also referred to in Erasmus' letter to PieterGillis. Boeynaems, P. (1959). "Afinus een Lierse arts en vriend van Erasmus...
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