Ars Bene Valendi

Title

en_US Ars Bene Valendi

en_US 0

Description

en_US Language note: Latin

François Joseph Terrasse Des Billons

Creator

en_US Des Billons, François Joseph Terrasse See all items with this value

Date

2020-01-23T17:39:12Z

2018-08

en_US 2018

Date Available

2020-01-23T17:39:12Z

Date Issued

en_US 1788

Abstract

en_US I ordered this book to help complete our collection of Desbillons' works, even though I believe that this book has little or no relation to Desbillons' many fable publications. This booklet offers some 68 pages filled with Latin senarii, six-foot iambic lines. He wrote this long poem in his 70's. Desbillons was a Jesuit who experienced the suppression of the Society in France in 1762 and then later in Mannheim, where he died. I remember him each time I walk over the memorial of Jesuits in the Jesuitenkirche a few blocks from our Jesuit community in Mannheim. When we have had enough sleep, Desbillons admonishes, we should jump out of bed as though the bed were on fire. I notice his condemnation of "exoticos liquores," including coffee, tea, and chocolate. And is he saying that beer causes Germans to experience apoplexy more than others? And do I read correctly in the ending pages of this poem a prayer for the restitution of the suppressed Society of Jesus?

Identifier

en_US 11810 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/125517

Language

en_US lat

Publisher

en_US Joann. Wiesen/Facsimile Publisher

en_US Heidelberg

Subject

en_US PQ1977.D47A78 2018 See all items with this value

Desbillons See all items with this value

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