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Outis [Gr.]. Nemo
By HUTTEN, Ulrich von.
ULYSSES: NOBODY IS MY NAME. MY FATHER AND MOTHER CALLED ME NOBODY, AS DO ALL THE OTHERS WHO ARE MY COMPANIONS, AND I AM THE LEADER OF THE MEN WHO WERE LOST DUE TO THE STORM. (Odyssey, 9.366-367). HUTTEN, Ulrich von. Outis [Gr.]. Nemo. Augsburg, Impressum Augustae in officina Millerana, [1518]. £7000. FIRST EDITION of Hutton's second Nemo (1516), enlarged and revised. 4to, 12 unnumbered leaves, A-C4. Roman letter, sporadic Greek. Title within full-page woodcut vignette of Nemo, who is the protagonist of this short poem, with a scene from the Homeric episode of Ulysses and the Cyclops Polyphemus in the background (work of the artist Hans Weiditz); decorated initials. T-p with thumb marks on margins and two small red ink spots on the illustration. Light age browning on page edges, occasional spotting. C17th extensive red ink annotations on verso of t-p, among them a passage from the poem De venere in Eoban Hesse s scholiastic medical work De tuenda bona valetudine (see 2° ed., 1555, f. 42 recto), and on verso of final leaf (reference to Johann Faust [Fust] as the inventor of printing, called ars calcographica , in Mainz during the reign of Emperor Frederick III) and underling throughout by the same hand; also other earlier ms. notes. In modern calf over boards with red morocco label to spine. An excellent copy. This is the second edition of Ulrich von Hutten (1488-1523) s Nemo, drafted before 1510 and first published in 1516. The author was a German humanist, poet, and a friend of Erasmus. He fostered the reorganisation of the Holy German Empire, promoting its independence from the papacy. Moreover, he had enormous influence on nineteenth-century Germany. He was crucial to the formation of the German national identity. Hutten supported the revolt against the Archbishop of Trier in 1522, which miserably failed, forcing him to find refuge in Zwingli s Zurich, where he spent his later years. He appreciated the innovative religious and political stance of Luther and the Reformation. Thanks to Nemo, von Hutten gained vast popularity as a skilled man of letters. This is a poem of 78 elegiac couplets, alternating hexameters and pentameters, preceded by a long letter of the author to his friend Crotus Rubianus, who collaborated with him on the edition of the Epistolae obscurorum virorum (1515-19). No doubt, originally Hutten s Nemo was only a student joke. This second expanded version is preceded by an epigram in which the humanist Konrad Mutian Rufus (the mentor of the famous poet Eoban Hesse) addresses Crotus describing in Homeric terms the satirical persona that Hutten adopted in Nemo. Nemo is not an invention ex nihilo of Hutten. An abundant literature dealt with this topic in the Middle Ages, which sprang from the literary puns of clerics or monks, who amused themselves by giving an identity to the pronoun nemo , meaning no one in Latin, by which many sentences of Ecclesiastes or Psalms begin. Clerics even devoted him a sermon or hagiography. Saint Nemo was popularised by these parodic sermons and, of course, also the famous Outis of the Odyssey, the wily Ulysses who saves his life and that of his companions from the fury of Polyphemus by calling himself Nobody, definitively informed this figure. Hutten has long been identified with this character: a much travelled nobody confined to exile. A letter from Hutten to Julius von Pflug, the last Catholic bishop of Naumburg and an early reformer, concludes this work. VD H6384; USTC 700207.
Published by: in officina Millerana, 1518
Vendor: Symonds Rare Books Ltd
By HUTTEN, Ulrich von.
ULYSSES: NOBODY IS MY NAME. MY FATHER AND MOTHER CALLED ME NOBODY, AS DO ALL THE OTHERS WHO ARE MY COMPANIONS, AND I AM THE LEADER OF THE MEN WHO WERE LOST DUE TO THE STORM. (Odyssey, 9.366-367). HUTTEN, Ulrich von. Outis [Gr.]. Nemo. Augsburg, Impressum Augustae in officina Millerana, [1518]. £7000. FIRST EDITION of Hutton's second Nemo (1516), enlarged and revised. 4to, 12 unnumbered leaves, A-C4. Roman letter, sporadic Greek. Title within full-page woodcut vignette of Nemo, who is the protagonist of this short poem, with a scene from the Homeric episode of Ulysses and the Cyclops Polyphemus in the background (work of the artist Hans Weiditz); decorated initials. T-p with thumb marks on margins and two small red ink spots on the illustration. Light age browning on page edges, occasional spotting. C17th extensive red ink annotations on verso of t-p, among them a passage from the poem De venere in Eoban Hesse s scholiastic medical work De tuenda bona valetudine (see 2° ed., 1555, f. 42 recto), and on verso of final leaf (reference to Johann Faust [Fust] as the inventor of printing, called ars calcographica , in Mainz during the reign of Emperor Frederick III) and underling throughout by the same hand; also other earlier ms. notes. In modern calf over boards with red morocco label to spine. An excellent copy. This is the second edition of Ulrich von Hutten (1488-1523) s Nemo, drafted before 1510 and first published in 1516. The author was a German humanist, poet, and a friend of Erasmus. He fostered the reorganisation of the Holy German Empire, promoting its independence from the papacy. Moreover, he had enormous influence on nineteenth-century Germany. He was crucial to the formation of the German national identity. Hutten supported the revolt against the Archbishop of Trier in 1522, which miserably failed, forcing him to find refuge in Zwingli s Zurich, where he spent his later years. He appreciated the innovative religious and political stance of Luther and the Reformation. Thanks to Nemo, von Hutten gained vast popularity as a skilled man of letters. This is a poem of 78 elegiac couplets, alternating hexameters and pentameters, preceded by a long letter of the author to his friend Crotus Rubianus, who collaborated with him on the edition of the Epistolae obscurorum virorum (1515-19). No doubt, originally Hutten s Nemo was only a student joke. This second expanded version is preceded by an epigram in which the humanist Konrad Mutian Rufus (the mentor of the famous poet Eoban Hesse) addresses Crotus describing in Homeric terms the satirical persona that Hutten adopted in Nemo. Nemo is not an invention ex nihilo of Hutten. An abundant literature dealt with this topic in the Middle Ages, which sprang from the literary puns of clerics or monks, who amused themselves by giving an identity to the pronoun nemo , meaning no one in Latin, by which many sentences of Ecclesiastes or Psalms begin. Clerics even devoted him a sermon or hagiography. Saint Nemo was popularised by these parodic sermons and, of course, also the famous Outis of the Odyssey, the wily Ulysses who saves his life and that of his companions from the fury of Polyphemus by calling himself Nobody, definitively informed this figure. Hutten has long been identified with this character: a much travelled nobody confined to exile. A letter from Hutten to Julius von Pflug, the last Catholic bishop of Naumburg and an early reformer, concludes this work. VD H6384; USTC 700207.
Published by: in officina Millerana, 1518
Vendor: Symonds Rare Books Ltd
