Bishop of Worms (at Heidelberg in 1497), to whom it is also inscribed by
Reuchlin. It seems to have given the good bishop great pleasure, and he
requited each of the performers with a gold ring and some gold coin.
Their names are recorded at the end of the drama.

Melchior Adam gives the following account:--

"Ibi Comoediam scripsit, _Capitis Caput_ plenam nigri salis &
acerbitatis adversus Monachum, qui ejus vitæ insidiatus erat.
Ibi & alteram Comoediam edidit _fabulam Gallicam_, plenam
candidi salis; in qua forensia sophismata præcipue taxat. Hanc
narrabat hac occasione scriptam & actam esse. Cum alteram de
Monacho scipsisset, fama sparsa est de agenda Comoedia, quod
illo tempore inusitatum erat. Dalburgius lecta, illius Monachi
insectatione, dissuasit editionem & actionem, quod eodem tempore
& apud Philipum Palatinum Franciscanus erat _Capellus_, propter
potentiam & malas artes invisus nobilibus & sapientibus viris in
aula. Intellexit periculum Capnio & hanc Comoediam occultavit.
Interea tamen, quia flagitabatur actio, alteram dulcem fabellam
edit, & repræsentari ab ingeniosis adolescentibus, quorum ibi
extant nomina, curat."

Mr. Hallam (_Literat. of Europe_, vol. i. p. 292., {90} 1st ed.), misled
by Warton and others, gives a very defective and erroneous account of
the _Progymnasmata Scænica_, which he supposed to contain several
dramas; but he concludes by saying, "the book is very scarce, and I have
never seen it." Gottsched, in his _History of the German Drama_, merely
says he had seen some notice of a Latin drama by Reuchlin. Hans Sachs
translated it into German, after his manner, and printed it in 1531
under the title of _Henno_.