Grobianus et Grobiana: sive, de morum simplicitate, libri tres, in gratiam omnium Rusticitatis amantium conscripti, per FRIDERICUM DEDEKINDUM. Iam denvò ab Auctore emendati, & plerisque in locis cùm præceptis tum exemplis aucti. IRON EPISCOPTES STudiosæ Iuventuti civilitatem optat. Ethica concenant veterum morosa sophorum, Cedat Aristoteles, cumque Platone Cato. Concedat Cicero Latius, concedat Erasmus, Et quotquot morum de gravitate docent. Hic liber exactam dat morum simplicitatem, Eque nova nuper prodiit ille schola. Hunc, studiose puer, vigili perdisce labore. Qui cupis ornatus moribus esse bonis. COLONIAE. AN. M. D. LVIII.
Cologne: 1558.
First published in two books in 1549, and enlarged to three in 1552, Dedekind's elegiac poem concerns a certain St. Grobian, a personage first envisioned half a century before by Sebastian Brant as a the patron saint of coarse manners. In Dedekind's satiric masterpiece, St. Grobian teaches students.....
