The poet praises many beautiful places he visited all over the world. Among the friends addressed there are poets and philosophers, both ancient and modern. He writes in Latin, wishing to invite human beings from all nations to banish discord and weapons and to defend peace. Liberal studies will contribute much to reach this aim.

Laudat poeta multa loca pulcherrima, quae vidit visitavitque in multis orbis terrarum partibus. Alloquitur autem amicos, inter quos poetas philosophosque antiquos et novos. Quod fit et metris Horatianis et distichis elegiacis. Latine autem scribit, quia omnium gentium homines invitare vult, ut tandem inimicitias armaque deponant pacemque defendant. Ad quod litterae studiaque liberalia plurimum conferunt.

The poet praises many beautiful places he visited all over the world. Among the friends addressed there are poets and philosophers, both ancient and modern. He writes in Latin, wishing to invite human beings from all nations to banish discord and weapons and to defend peace. Liberal studies will contribute much to reach this aim.

Autorentext

Michael von Albrecht, Stutgardiae anno MCMXXXIII natus, ibidem et Tubingae et Lutetiae Parisiorum studuit musicae, philologiae Graecae, Latinae, Indicae. Gradum Dr.phil. et veniam legendi adeptus Tubingae, in Universitate Heidelbergensi fuit prof. ordinarius (inde ab a.MCMLXIV). Dr. h.c. in Univ. Thessalonicensi et in Academia Mosquensi. Praemiis multis ornatus est. Scripsit de littteris antiquis et hodiernis et de musica. Docuit etiam Amstelaedami, Princetoniae, in Universitatibus Texana, Floridensi, aliis.

Inhalt

Neo-Latin Poetry - Ode, Elegy, Epigram - Benedict XVI, Comenius, Hilde Domin, Durs Grünbein, Luther, Lucretius, Melanchthon, Ovid, Plato, Vergil - Horatian metres - Alcaic strophe, Asclepiadean strophe, elegiac distich - Liberal studies and their contribution to world peace