Joannes Sapidus, as Hans Witz was known during his lifetime and has been known since, was a highly esteemed scholar in the close-knit republic of letters of northern humanism in the first half of the sixteenth century. He was headmaster of the Latin School at Schlettstadt (Sélestat) in Alsace at the zenith of its reputation and later a tirelessly dedicated teacher in Strasbourg; a friend and correspondent of some of the most distinguished personages of the Reformation period -- Desiderius Erasmus, Beatus Rhenanus, Martin Bucer, Huldrych Zwingli, Johannes Oecolampadius, and Wolfgang Capito; and a Neo-Latin author in the genres of drama, poetry, and prose. Although Paul Volz described Sapidus in a letter to Rhenanus (1 December 1536) as gloriae propriae negligens (indifferent to his own fame), and although the body of Sapidus's publications was not extensive, what did see the light of day is of the first quality...