Vol. 3 No. 1 (2023)
Research Article

The Poems of Nicasius Ellebodius

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  • Áron Orbán,
  • Ádám Szabó
Áron Orbán
Tokaj University, Sárospatak
Ádám Szabó
Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
DOI: https://doi.org/10.47075/CEC.2023-1.04

Published 2023-08-24

Keywords

  • Nicasius Ellebodius, Rodolfo Pio da Carpi, Henry II of France, Charles V (Holy Roman Emperor), Gabriele Falloppio, Georg Purkircher, Girolama Colonna, Carolus Clusius, Neo-latin poetry, Renaissance humanism

How to Cite

Orbán, Áron, and Ádám Szabó. 2023. “The Poems of Nicasius Ellebodius”. Central European Cultures 3 (1):65-88. https://doi.org/10.47075/CEC.2023-1.04.

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Abstract

This study explores the surviving poetry of Nicasius Ellebodius (1535–1577). While his great philological achievments of this Flemish humanist are well known, his lesser works, including his poems, have received much less scholarly attention. At the present state of research, nine poems of his are extant today, both Latin and Greek pieces, which make up althogether around 230 lines. Beyond their literary and aesthetical value, these occasional poems throw light on various aspects of Ellebodius’s life and personality, his attitude to possible and actual patrons, his relationship with humanist friends. There survived poems from various stages of his life, from his Roman (mid-1550s), Paduan (1560s) and Pozsony periods (1570s). We provide a critical edition of all these poems (only two were edited in previous scholarship), and make decisive steps in exploring their context.

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