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Spinoza’s sudden death
Towards the end of 1676, Spinoza’s health begins to deteriorate. He dies unexpectedly on Sunday 21 February from a lung disease, at the age of 44. He left no written will. It is reported that Spinoza made some last arrangements with his landlord, Van der Spijck, to convey his writings immediately upon his death in a desk  (‘lessenaar’) to his publisher Rieuwertsz. On 25 February, the burial ceremony for Spinoza is held in the Reformed Nieuwe Kerk of The Hague at the Spui, where his coffin is interred in a rented vault. His friends in Amsterdam immediately start preparing the publication of his works.
  


still van sterfscene in de film van van Robin Lutz Spinoza, een vrije denker (2015). Rowin Prins als Spinoza

Emanuela Scribano, "Spinoza muore" [Spinoza dies]. In: Rivista di Storia Della Filosofia 67 [2012](#1):107-130. Academia.edu
Abstract: In the essay Spinoza Dies, the Author imagines Spinoza’s reflections in the hours preceding his death and uses them to present the philosopher’s theories on life, death, suicide and eternity of the mind. These theories require a concept of identity able to answer questions on the essence of life and death, the identity of the dying and/of the surviving individual. While some interpreters deny that the eternal mind can be a personal one, the Author argues in complete contrast that the mind truly achieves a personal identity only in the dimension of eternity.

Vanwege het ontbreken van een compositie bij of n.a.v. Spinoza's dood, draag ik hem hier deze prachige compositie uit 1497 op die Josquin Desprez maakte bij de dood van zijn leermeester Johannes Ockeghem:  

Josquin Desprez, La déploration sur la Mort de Johannes Ockeghem (Nymphes Des Bois), gezongen door La Capella Reial de Catalunya o.l.v. Jordi Savall.

                            

Nymphes des bois, déesses des fontaines,
chantres experts de toutes nations,
changez voz voix fort clères et haultaines
en cris tranchantz et lamentations.
Car d'Atropos, les molestations,
vostre' Ockeghem par sa rigueur attrappe,
le vray trèsoir de musique' et chief d'oeuvre,
qui de trépas dè sormails plus n'eschappe,
dont Grant doumaige' est que la terre coeuvre.

Acoutrez vous d'abitz de deuil:
Josquin, Brumel, Pierson, Compère,
et plorez grosses larmes d'oeil:
perdu avez vostre bon père.
Requiescat in pace. Amen.

 

Daaraan ook deze  "Mille Regretz" van Josquin Desprez toegevoegd, gezongen door Cantica Symphonia [cf. wiki met tekst én twijfel toeschrijving]

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