The Poetic Works of Helius Eobanus Hessus : : Volume 5: A Veritable Proteus, 1524-1528 / / Harry Vredeveld.

• Superior document: The Renaissance Society of America ; 15
• VerfasserIn: Harry, Vredeveld,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL, , 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: The Renaissance Society of America ; 15.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (870 pages).

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- 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 ἐκφώνησις 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 ἐκφώνησις -- Notes to Bucolicorum idyllia XVII -- Back Matter -- List of Abbreviations -- Index of Medieval and Neo-Latin Words -- Glossarial Index -- General Index.