Vondel

Amsterdam’s central Vondel Park was packed with families buying, selling and playing games.

That’s the entrance to the Vondel Bunker, a 1940s-era bomb shelter that now hosts rock concerts, bar nights, art exhibits and film screenings.

Mr. Andriessen follows Dante’s trajectory through hell, purgatory and, finally, paradise, but interjects texts by the 16th-century German theologian Sebastian Brant, the 17th-century Dutch dramatist Joost van den Vondel and the “Song of Songs.”

After Vondel, he may on the whole be considered the most considerable author that Holland has produced.

There he entertained the poet Vondel, the scholar Barlaeus,1 Constantin Huygens, Vossius, Laurens Reael and others.