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The Poetic Works of Helius Eobanus Hessus
Volume 3: King of Poets, 1514-1517
Series: - The Renaissance Society of America, Volume: 1
Author:
Hailed as âKing of Poetsâ by Johann Reuchlin in 1514, Eobanus Hessus (1488â1540) was eager to build on his fame with a stream of new works: âEaster Hymn,â âOn True Nobility,â âOn the Avoidance of Drunkenness,â âResponse from His Majesty Maximilianâ (answering Huttenâs âLetter from Italiaâ), and the short epic âChristâs Victory over the Underworld,â as well as a hitherto unknown âInaugural Lectureâ on Cicero and Plautus. In 1515 he anonymously published a mock-quodlibetical speech that applies the scholastic method of argumentation to âThe Species of Drunkards.â Eobanusâ 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.
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 Erasmusâ poems for Collected Works (1993) and Opera omnia (1995).
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
CORRIGENDA AND ADDENDA TO VOLUMES 1 AND 2
HYMNUS PASCHALIS / AN EASTER HYMN
Introduction
Text and translation
ORATIO, SIVE PRAELECTIO / AN ORATION, OR INAUGURAL LECTURE
Introduction
Text and translation
DE VERA NOBILITATE / ON TRUE NOBILITY
Introduction
Text and translation
DE GENERIBUS EBRIOSORUM ET EBRIETATE VITANDA / THE SPECIES OF DRUNKARDS
AND THE AVOIDANCE OF DRUNKENNESS
Introduction
Text and translation
DE VITANDA EBRIETATE ELEGIA / AN ELEGY ON THE AVOIDANCE OF DRUNKENNESS
Introduction
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 HUTTEN
Introduction
Text and translation
VICTORIA CHRISTI AB INFERIS / CHRISTâS VICTORY OVER THE UNDERWORLD
Introduction
Text and translation
SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES
Notes to Hymnus paschalis
Notes to Oratio, sive praelectio
Notes to De vera nobilitate
Notes to De generibus ebriosorum et ebrietate vitanda
Notes to De vitanda ebrietate elegia
Notes to Epistola Italiae, Responsio Maximiliani, Epigrammata
Notes to Victoria Christi ab inferis
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
INDEX OF MEDIEVAL AND NEO LATIN WORDS
GLOSSARIAL INDEX
GENERAL INDEX
All those interested in Neo-Latin and German literature, the history of Renaissance humanism in Germany, intellectual and cultural history, university history, alcoholism in literature.