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Drugs as intoxicants

In this chapter, I discuss the poetic inspiration that was associated in the Renaissance
 with such concepts as furor poeticus (poetic madness), ecstasy and
 enthousiasmos. I show how Joannes Six van Chandelier gives poetic madness
 a material foundation by linking it to exotic drugs such as cachou. I then show
 how Six, in a poem addressed to his doctor, Simon Dilman, and to the theologian
 Johannes Hoornbeeck, emphasises both the medical and the religious dangers
 of furor poeticus. Here Six presents himself as a weak and fragile rhymester, but
 in a positive sense, to distance himself from negative associations that poetic
 madness gave rise to, such as the thirst for divine knowledge and perfection. In
 other texts, some of which were addressed to the pastor Pieter Wittewrongel, we
 see how Six distinguishes between a Christian and a pagan ecstasy.