The Poetic Works of Helius Eobanus Hessus Volume 5: A Veritable Proteus, 1524-1528 (Renaissance Society of America, 15)

Faced with losing his Erfurt lectorships, Eobanus Hessus coped by imagining himself a Proteus, transforming into a lawyer, a physician, and finally a teacher at the evangelical academy in Nuremberg. Volume 5 traces this story via Hessuss poems of 1524-1528 ‎Contents 8 ‎Illustrations 10 ‎Acknowledgments 12 ‎Corrigenda to Volume 1 13 ‎Addendum to Volume 3 14 ‎Corrigenda and Addendum to Volume 4 15 ‎Bonae valetudinis conservandae rationes aliquot Some Rules for Preserving Good Health 16 ‎Introduction 18 ‎Text and Translation 59 ‎Elegiae tres Three Elegies 176 ‎Introduction 179 ‎Excursus: The Woodcut Portrait of Eobanus 190 ‎Text and Translation 201 ‎Venus triumphans Venus Triumphant 224 ‎Introduction 226 ‎Text and Translation 231 ‎In hypocrisim vestitus monastici ἐκφώνησις An Outcry against the Hypocrisy of the Monastic Habit 292 ‎Introduction 294 ‎Text and Translation 299 ‎Bucolicorum idyllia XVII Seventeen Bucolic Idyls 320 ‎Introduction 324 ‎Text and Translation 339 ‎Supplementary Notes 530 ‎Notes to Bonae valetudinis conservandae rationes aliquot 532 ‎Notes to Elegiae tres 601 ‎Notes to Venus triumphans 613 ‎Notes to In hypocrisim vestitus monastici ἐκφώνησις 641 ‎Notes to Bucolicorum idyllia XVII 650 ‎List of Abbreviations 810 ‎A. Patristic, Medieval, and Early Modern Authors and Works 810 ‎B. Eobanus Hessus’s Works 819 ‎C. Eobanus Hessus’s Correspondence 823 ‎D. Other Abbreviations 824 ‎Index of Medieval and Neo-Latin Words 828 ‎Glossarial Index 830 ‎General Index 851 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