This volume examines patriotic, allegorical epistolary poems written in Latin and German in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In light of certain hardships (the Ottoman wars, the Thirty Years' War), Germania personified as a woman writes letters of lament to one or several rulers, pleading for their assistance against outside enemies and for them to restore the concord that has been troubled within her borders.

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Teresa Baier, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany.