| The Poetic Works of Helius Eobanus Hessus: Volume 5: A Veritable Proteus, 1524-1528 Contributor(s): Vredeveld (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004414657 ISBN-13: 9789004414655 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $257.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Ancient & Classical - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Poetry | Anthologies (multiple Authors) |
| Dewey: 871.04 |
| Physical Information: 2" H x 6.3" W x 9.4" (2.25 lbs) 870 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |