Report to Saint Peter, upon the kind of world in which Hendrik Willem van Loon spent the first years of his life - an unfinished, posthumously published autobiography, 1947, Simon and Schuster
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The song is titled "Van Loon," and appears in the album Signora Bovary.
"Van Loon" is about Guccini's father, who was a reader of the books of the 1930s science writer Hendrik Willem van Loon.
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The town of Veere forms the setting for "Van Loon's Lives", a book of contemporary fantasy written by Hendrik Willem Van Loon in 1942, in which the protagonists are able to magically summon the great men and women of history for weekend dinner parties, leading to often humorous incidents.