A spirited new translation of a forgotten classic, shot through with timeless wisdom "This is a fun little book; it is also a scholarly edition of a little-known sixteenth-century didactic poem, accompanied by an eminently readable translation-an unusual and commendable combination. . . . We should be thankful to Michael Fontaine for undertaking this edition and translation, and to Princeton University Press for publishing it. . . . Obsopoeus might well be proud of how his poem has been presented to twenty-first-century readers."---David Money, Neo-Latin News