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Book SynopsisAs 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 ContentsList of Illustrations 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 List of Abbreviations Index of Medieval and Neo-Latin Words Glossarial Index General Index
