This cornucopia of poetic fruits from Hessuss autumn opens with "On the Tumults of These Times" (1528), meditating on the Peasant War and the Sack of Rome, and exhortations to Emperor Charles V to heal Germanys traumas and defeat the Turks (1530). Next are the masterpieces, "Epicedia" (1531), mourning famous contemporaries; the urban praise "Nuremberg Illuminated" (1532); and three books of Christian "Heroides" (1532), updated to reflect Lutheran teaching. The collection concludes with three dirges, a panegyric of Landgrave Philips victory in Württemberg (1534), an "Elegy on Slander" for Melanchthon (1538), and an "Epithalamion" for the Marburg jurist Justus Studaeus (1539).
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
De tumultibus horum temporum querela A Lament on the Tumults of These Times
Introduction
Title Page
Dedicatory Letter
1 De cladibus et tumultibus suorum temporum querela / A Lament on the
Calamities and Tumults of His Times
2 Praesentium temporum cum priscis collatio / A Comparison of Our Present
Times with Those of Antiquity
3 Mutatio omnium regnorum Europae / Upheaval in All the Realms of Europe
4 Bellum servile Germaniae / The Serfs War in Germany
5 In afflictam bellis intestinis Germaniam consolatio paraenetica / A
Parenetic Consolation to Germany, Afflicted with Internal Wars
6 Roma capta / The Captured Rome
7 Roma capta Ciceroni respondet / The Captured Rome Responds to Cicero
Divo ac invicto Imperatori Caesari Carolo V. Augusto Germaniam ingredienti
Urbis Norimbergae gratulatoria acclamatio To the Godlike and Invincible
Emperor, His August Majesty Charles V, as He Enters Germany, a Congratulatory
Acclamation from the City of Nuremberg
Introduction
Title Page
1 Divo et invicto Imperatori Caesari Carolo V. Augusto Germaniam ingredienti
Urbis Norimbergae gratulatoria acclamatio / To the Godlike and Invincible
Emperor, His August Majesty Charles V, as He Enters Germany, a Congratulatory
Acclamation from the City of Nuremberg
2 Ad invictissimum imperatorem Caesarem Carolum V., perpetuum Augustum, ad
bellum contra Turcas sumendum adhortatio / To the Most Invincible Emperor,
His Imperial Majesty Charles V, at All Times Increaser of the Empire, an
Exhortation on the Urgency of Undertaking a War against the Turks
Illustrium ac clarorum aliquot virorum memoriae scripta epicedia Epicedia
Written to the Memory of Some Illustrious and Celebrated Men
Introduction
Title Page
1 In morte divi Friderici, ducis Saxoniae, principis electoris, epicedion /
An Epicedium on the Death of the Godlike Frederick, Duke of Saxony, Prince
Elector
2 Guilielmi Neseni, qui in traiectu Albis fluvii periit, epicedion / An
Epicedium on Wilhelm Nesen, Who Perished While Crossing the Elbe River
3 In morte consummatissimi pictoris Alberti Dureri Nurenbergensis epicedion /
An Epicedium on the Death of That Most Consummate Painter, Albrecht Dürer of
Nuremberg
3A Somnium de eodem / Dream about the Same
3B Ad pictores, ne Dureri laudibus offendantur / To the Painters, Not to Take
Offense at the Praises of Dürer
3C Epithaphia in Albertum Durerum / Epitaphs on Albrecht Dürer
4 In funere doctissimi viri Mutiani Rufi epicedion / An Epicedium on the
Death of That Most Learned Man, Mutianus Rufus
5 Ulrichi Hutteni equitis ac poetae epicedion / An Epicedium on the Knight
and Poet Ulrich von Hutten
6 In funere clarissimi Ioannis Reuchlini Phorcensis epicedion / An Epicedium
on the Death of That Most Illustrious Man, Johann Reuchlin of Pforzheim
7 Clarissimi viri Bilibaldi Pyrghaymeri epicedion / An Epicedium on That Most
Illustrious Man, Willibald Pirckheimer
8 In funere summi viri Mercurini, principis Chattinariae, epicedion / An
Epicedium on the Death of His Excellency Mercurino, Prince of Gattinara
9 In funere Casparis Nucelii epicedion / An Epicedium on the Death of Kaspar
Nützel
Urbs Noriberga illustrata The City of Nuremberg Illuminated
Introduction
Text and Translation
Heroidum libri tres Three Books of Heroides
Introduction
Tables of Corresponding Numbers
Title Page
Dedicatory Letter
1.1 Deus Pater Mariae Virgini / God the Father to the Virgin Mary
1.2 Maria Virgo Deo Patri / The Virgin Mary to God the Father
1.3 Maria Magdalena Iesu Christo / Mary Magdalene to Jesus Christ
1.4 Maria Ioanni / Mary to John
1.5 Lydia Paulo / Lydia to Paul
1.6 Helisabeth Ioanni Baptistae / Elizabeth to John the Baptist
2.1 Helena Constantino / Helen to Constantine
2.2 Paula Hieronymo / Paula to Jerome
2.3 Anna Ioachimo / Anna to Joachim
2.4 Martha Maximino / Martha to Maximinus
2.5 Monica Augustino / Monica to Augustine
2.6 Anastasia Chrysogono / Anastasia to Chrysogonus
2.7 Helisabetha Ludovico / Elizabeth to Ludwig
3.1 Catharina Christo / Catherine to Christ
3.2 Thais Paphnutio / Thais to Paphnutius
3.3 Cunegundis Henricho / Cunegund to Henry
3.4 Barbara Eusebio / Barbara to Eusebius
3.5 Sabina Alexio / Sabina to Alexius
3.6 Pelagia Nonio / Pelagia to Nonius
3.7 Maria Aegyptia Zozimae / Mary of Egypt to Zosimas
3.8 Dorothea Theophilo / Dorothy to Theophilus
3.9 Eobanus Posteritati / Eobanus to Posterity
In funere clarissimi quondam viri, D. Hieronymi Ebneri On the Death of That
Late Most Illustrious Man, Mr. Hieronymus Ebner
Introduction
Text and Translation
De victoria Vvirtembergensi ad illustrem et inclytum heroa Philippum
gratulatoria acclamatio A Congratulatory Acclamation to the Illustrious and
Renowned Hero Philip on His Victory in Württemberg
Introduction
Text and Translation
In funere clarissimi et incomparabilis eruditionis viri, D. Erasmi Roterodami
epicedion An Epicedium on the Death of That Most Illustrious Man of
Incomparable Erudition, Mr. Erasmus of Rotterdam
Introduction
Text and Translation
Elegia recens scripta de Calumnia An Elegy Newly Written on Slander
Introduction
Text and Translation
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 Erasmuss poems for "Collected Works" (1993) and "Opera omnia" (1995).
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