The Poetic Works of Helius Eobanus Hessus

Volume 3: King of Poets, 1514-1517
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-22893-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 810 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 1368 g

Reihe: The Renaissance Society of America

Hailed as “King of Poets” by Johann Reuchlin in 1514, Eobanus Hessus (1488–1540) was eager to build on his fame with a stream of new works: “Easter Hymn,” “On True Nobility,” “On the Avoidance of Drunkenness,” “Response from His Majesty Maximilian” (answering Hutten’s “Letter from Italia”), and the short epic “Christ’s Victory over the Underworld,” as well as a hitherto unknown “Inaugural Lecture” on Cicero and Plautus. In 1515 he anonymously published a mock-quodlibetical speech that applies the scholastic method of argumentation to “The Species of Drunkards.” Eobanus’ first bestseller, this brilliant satire was reprinted well into the eighteenth century. All of these texts are included in the present volume, along with annotated translations, ground-breaking introductions, and commentary.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in Neo-Latin and German literature, the history of Renaissance humanism in Germany, intellectual and cultural history, university history, alcoholism in literature.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vredeveld, Harry

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CORRIGENDA AND ADDENDA TO VOLUMES 1 AND 2

HYMNUS PASCHALIS / AN EASTER HYMN
Introduction
Text and translation

ORATIO, SIVE PRAELECTIO / AN ORATION, OR INAUGURAL LECTURE
Introduction
Text and translation

DE VERA NOBILITATE / ON TRUE NOBILITY
Introduction
Text and translation

DE GENERIBUS EBRIOSORUM ET EBRIETATE VITANDA / THE SPECIES OF DRUNKARDS
AND THE AVOIDANCE OF DRUNKENNESS
Introduction
Text and translation



DE VITANDA EBRIETATE ELEGIA / AN ELEGY ON THE AVOIDANCE OF DRUNKENNESS
Introduction
Text and translation

EPISTOLA ITALIAE AD DIVUM MAXIMILIANUM CAESAREM AUGUSTUM, ULRICHO HUTTENO AUTORE RESPONSIO MAXIMILIANI AUGUSTI HELIO EOBANO HESSO AUTORE HUTTENI DE EADEM RE EPIGRAMMATA ALIQUOT / A LETTER FROM ITALIA TO HIS MAJESTY, THE GODLIKE EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN, BY ULRICH VON HUTTEN A RESPONSE FROM HIS MAJESTY MAXIMILIAN, BY HELIUS EOBANUS HESSUS SOME EPIGRAMS ON THE SAME TOPIC, BY HUTTEN
Introduction
Text and translation

VICTORIA CHRISTI AB INFERIS / CHRIST’S VICTORY OVER THE UNDERWORLD
Introduction
Text and translation

SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES
Notes to Hymnus paschalis
Notes to Oratio, sive praelectio
Notes to De vera nobilitate
Notes to De generibus ebriosorum et ebrietate vitanda
Notes to De vitanda ebrietate elegia
Notes to Epistola Italiae, Responsio Maximiliani, Epigrammata
Notes to Victoria Christi ab inferis

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

INDEX OF MEDIEVAL AND NEO LATIN WORDS

GLOSSARIAL INDEX

GENERAL INDEX

Über Autor(innen)

Vredeveld, Harry
Harry Vredeveld, Ph.D. (1970) in German, Princeton University, is Professor Emeritus at The Ohio State University, Columbus. Besides the Hessus edition and numerous articles on Neo-Latin authors, he has edited Erasmus’ poems for Collected Works (1993) and Opera omnia (1995).

Harry Vredeveld, Ph.D. (1970) in German, Princeton University, is Professor Emeritus at The Ohio State University, Columbus. Besides the Hessus edition and numerous articles on Neo-Latin authors, he has edited Erasmus’ poems for Collected Works (1993) and Opera omnia (1995).