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Leo of Aitzema was a Dutch historian, diplomat, bon viveur, libertine and spy.
He was born at Dokkum, in Friesland. In 1617 he published a volume of Latin poems under the title of Poemata Juvenilia, of which a copy is preserved in the British Museum. He made a special study of politics and political science and was for thirty years resident and minister for the Hanseatic towns at the Hague, where he died on 23 February 1669.
Lithography by G.J. Thieme
