The Poetic Works of Helius Eobanus Hessus - Volume 3: King of Poets, 1514-1517

Besides the five substantial poems that Eobanus Hessus published at Erfurt in 1515-17, this volume offers his previously unknown "Inaugural Lecture" on Cicero and Plautus and the bestselling satire "On the Species of Drunkards," first published anonymously in 1515.

About the author

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 Erasmus' poems for Collected Works (1993) and Opera omnia (1995).

Product details

• Authors: Harry Vredeveld
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.07.2012
• EAN: 9789004228931
• ISBN: 978-90-04-22893-1
• No. of pages: 810
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 243 mm x 53 mm
• Weight: 1368 g
• Series: Renaissance Society of America
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History