Grobianus et Grobiana: sive, de morum simplicitate, libri tres
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Grobianus et Grobiana: sive, de morum simplicitate, libri tres (1558, Cologne) is a work by Friedrich Dedekind (1524-1598).
A poem in Latin elegiac verse, it was first published in two books in 1549, and revised form and enlarged to three books in 1552. Dedekind's work had an immense popularity across Continental Europe.
The work describes the fictional Saint Grobian as a counselor who teaches men on how to avoid bad manners, gluttony, and drunkenness.
Dedekind's work appeared in England in 1605 as The Schoole of Slovenrie: Or, Cato turnd wrong side outward, published by one "R.F.". The "Schoole" was imagined as a place where one was instructed to use one's greasy fingers to grab at the nicest portions of any dish and snatch food belonging to fellow diners. Holding back the desire to urinate, fart, and vomit is taught to be bad for one's health; thus, one has to indulge freely in all three activities.
The work also inspired Thomas Dekker's The Guls Horne-Booke (1609).
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