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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2012-07-06
Mått:155 x 235 x 51 mm
Vikt:1 319 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Renaissance Society of America
Antal sidor:786
Förlag:Brill
ISBN:9789004228931

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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).

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONSACKNOWLEDGMENTS CORRIGENDA AND ADDENDA TO VOLUMES 1 AND 2 HYMNUS PASCHALIS / AN EASTER HYMN Introduction Text and translation ORATIO, SIVE PRAELECTIO / AN ORATION, OR INAUGURAL LECTUREIntroduction Text and translation DE VERA NOBILITATE / ON TRUE NOBILITYIntroduction Text and translation DE GENERIBUS EBRIOSORUM ET EBRIETATE VITANDA / THE SPECIES OF DRUNKARDS AND THE AVOIDANCE OF DRUNKENNESSIntroduction Text and translation DE VITANDA EBRIETATE ELEGIA / AN ELEGY ON THE AVOIDANCE OF DRUNKENNESSIntroduction 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 HUTTENIntroduction Text and translation VICTORIA CHRISTI AB INFERIS / CHRIST’S VICTORY OVER THE UNDERWORLDIntroduction Text and translation SUPPLEMENTARY NOTESNotes to Hymnus paschalisNotes to Oratio, sive praelectioNotes to De vera nobilitateNotes to De generibus ebriosorum et ebrietate vitandaNotes to De vitanda ebrietate elegiaNotes to Epistola Italiae, Responsio Maximiliani, Epigrammata Notes to Victoria Christi ab inferisLIST OF ABBREVIATIONS INDEX OF MEDIEVAL AND NEO LATIN WORDS GLOSSARIAL INDEX GENERAL INDEX