The Hague, Stille Veerkade, no. 32

Between early September 1669 and early February 1671, Spinoza rehoused from Voorburg to The Hague, where he rented rooms at the Stille Veerkade (now no. 32) from a widow called ‘Van Velen’, at the rear end of the house, at the second floor. The house was just around the corner of the Paviljoensgracht, the address where he would later rent a room at the house of decoration painter Hendrick van der Spijck. His clandestinely published Tractatus theologico-politicus during the spring of 1670 would definitively catapult him into notoriety and fame up to modern times.