Die verschmähete Eitelkeit und die verlangete Ewigkeit, Teil 2 (1668)

The second part of Rist’s 1668 posthumously published "Die verschmähte Eitelkeit" is an Early Modern milestone in the literary engagement with the vanitas topos. Like the first part (1658), the second part of this piece also comprises 24 meditative texts in the form of "soliloquies," each of which is summarized in a song, intensified and translated into the sung, remembered appropriation of the addressee.