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Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval pieties in favour of a rich new vision of the individual's potential. Praise of Folly, written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, is Erasmus's best-known... Read Full Overview

Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval pieties in favour of a rich new vision of the individual's potential. Praise of Folly, written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, is Erasmus's best-known... Read Full Overview

Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) was a Dutch humanist, scholar, and social critic, and one of the most important figures of the Renaissance. The Praise of Folly is perhaps his best-known work. Originally written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, this satiric celebration... Read Full Overview

First published in Paris in 1511, The Praise of Folly has enjoyed enormous and highly controversial success from the author's lifetime down to our own day. It has no rival, except perhaps Thomas More's Utopia, as the most intense and lively presentation of the literary, social,... Read Full Overview

This witty, influential work by one of the greatest scholars of the Renaissance satirizes the shortcomings of the upper classes and religious institutions of the time. The most effective of all Erasmus's writings -- ripe with allusions, vignettes, and caricatures -- the literary... Read Full Overview

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization... Read Full Overview

Erasmus von Rotterdam: Lob der Torheit Mit 32 Illustrationen von Hans Holbein dem J ngeren Neuausgabe 2020, mit aktuellem Vorwort
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Morias Encomion: Sive Declamatio In Laudem Stultitiae est opus magnum Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami, quod anno Domini MDII in lucem editum est. In hoc libro, Erasmus laudat stultitiam et eius virtutes, quae, ut ait, homines a tristitia et anxietate liberant. Inter alia, auctor... Read Full Overview

El Elogio de la locura, (Morias Enkomion en griego y Stultitiae Laus en lat n: literalmente, Elogio de la estulticia o de la tonter a) es un ensayo escrito por Erasmo de Rotterdam e impreso por primera vez en 1511; est inspirado en De triumpho stultitiae del italiano Faustino... Read Full Overview

First published in Paris in 1511, The Praise of Folly has enjoyed enormous and highly controversial success from the author's lifetime down to our own day. The Folly has no rival, except perhaps Thomas More's Utopia, as the most intense and lively presentation of the literary,... Read Full Overview

A satire on the pretensions of Erasmus's contemporaries in the Church and philosophy

Written in Latin in 1509 and published in 1511, "Praise of Folly" by Dutch humanist and scholar Desiderius Erasmus is considered one of the most important works of literature in Western Civilization. The essay is a classic satirical work in the style of Lucian, the ancient... Read Full Overview

Considered one of the most important works of literature in Western Civilization, Desiderius Erasmus's essay In Praise of Folly is a classic satirical work in the style of the ancients, in which the Goddess of Folly extols the virtues of frivolousness and indulgence of one's... Read Full Overview