Iusti Lipsi Epistolae. Pars IX contains the correspondence of
1596 and is edited by Hugo Peeters. Lipsius is finally feeling more at
home in his native country: his financial situation has approved thanks
to the title of historiographus regius involving an annuity of
1,000 florins, and the arrival of several contubernales, promising
students accommodated at his home who will receive an almost constant
training in Latin. The first part of the year finds him still occupied
by the final details of the Poliorcetica, a sequel to De
militia Romana expounding on war engines and siege tactics, which he
dedicated to Prince Bishop Ernest of Liege. Near the end of the year he
was focusing on a new project, the Monita et exempla politica, a
practical sequel to the political theories elaborated in the
Politica, which he intended to dedicate to Albert of Austria, the
newly arrived governor of the Netherlands.