The Poetic Works of Helius Eobanus Hessus

Volume 5: A Veritable Proteus, 1524–1528

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ID23213867
AuthorsHarry Vredeveld (corresponding author)
Year2020
Publication date2020-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Poetic Works of Helius Eobanus Hessus (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/9789004414662
OpenAlexW4236591812
ISBN9789004414662
LanguageEN
Citations received7

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.

Art · Hypocrisy · Literature · Poetry · Praise · Theology · Historical, Literary, and Cultural Studies · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Renaissance and Early Modern Studies

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