Poetic Works of Helius Eobanus Hessus (eBook)

Volume 5: A Veritable Proteus, 1524-1528

Harry Vredeveld (Autor)

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2019
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-41466-2 (ISBN)

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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: "e;Some Rules for Preserving Good Health"e; (1524; 1531), with attached "e;Praise of Medicine"e; and two sets of epigrams; "e;Three Elegies"e; (1526), two praising the Nuremberg school and one attacking a criticaster; "e;Venus Triumphant"e; (1527), with poems on Joachim Camerarius's wedding; "e;Against the Hypocrisy of the Monastic Habit"e; (1527), with four Psalm paraphrases; and "e;Seventeen Bucolic Idyls"e; (1528), updating the "e;Bucolicon"e; of 1509 and adding five idyls.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.12.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
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• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 90-04-41466-5 / 9004414665
• ISBN-13: 978-90-04-41466-2 / 9789004414662