The Poetic Works of Helius Eobanus Hessus

Volume 5: A Veritable Proteus, 1524-1528
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-41465-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 856 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 1021 g

Reihe: The Renaissance Society of America

As the University of Erfurt collapsed in the early 1520s, Hessus faced losing his livelihood. To cope, he imagined himself a shape-changing Proteus. Transforming first into a lawyer, then a physician, he finally became a teacher at the Nuremberg academy organized by Philip Melanchthon. Volume 5 traces this story via Hessus's poems of 1524-1528: "Some Rules for Preserving Good Health" (1524; 1531), with attached "Praise of Medicine" and two sets of epigrams; "Three Elegies" (1526), two praising the Nuremberg school and one attacking a criticaster; "Venus Triumphant" (1527), with poems on Joachim Camerarius’s wedding; "Against the Hypocrisy of the Monastic Habit" (1527), with four Psalm paraphrases; and "Seventeen Bucolic Idyls" (1528), updating the "Bucolicon" of 1509 and adding five idyls.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vredeveld, Harry

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Mittel- & Neulateinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Corrigenda to Volume 1

Addendum to Volume 3

Corrigenda and Addendum to Volume 4

Bonae valetudinis conservandae rationes aliquot Some Rules for Preserving Good Health

Introduction

Text and Translation

Elegiae tres Three Elegies

Introduction

Excursus: The Woodcut Portrait of Eobanus

Text and Translation

Venus triumphans Venus Triumphant

Introduction

Text and Translation

In hypocrisim vestitus monastici ??f???s?? An Outcry against the Hypocrisy of the Monastic Habit

Introduction

Text and Translation

Bucolicorum idyllia XVII Seventeen Bucolic Idyls

Introduction

Text and Translation

Supplementary Notes

Notes to Bonae valetudinis conservandae rationes aliquot

Notes to Elegiae tres

Notes to Venus triumphans

Notes to In hypocrisim vestitus monastici ??f???s??

Notes to Bucolicorum idyllia XVII

List of Abbreviations

Index of Medieval and Neo-Latin Words

Glossarial Index

General Index

Über Autor(innen)

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’s poems for Collected Works (1993) and Opera omnia (1995).