Erasmus and His Age: Selected Letters of Desiderius Erasmus.

Erasmus, Desiderius

Harper Row Publishers

The classic work of the Renaissance humanist satirizes the organized Christian Church of the sixteenth century

Praise of Folly: And, Letter to Martin Dorp, 1515 (Penguin Classics) (English and Latin Edition)

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Viking Pr

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 work. Its dazzling mixture of fantasy and satire is narrated by a personification of Folly, dressed as a jester, who celebrates youth, pleasure, drunkenness and sexual desire, and goes on to lambast human pretensions, foibles and frailties, to mock theologians and monks and to praise the 'folly' of simple Christian piety. Erasmus's wit, wordplay and wisdom made the book an instant success, but it also attracted what may have been sales-boosting criticism. The Letter to Maarten van Dorp, which is a defence of his ideas and methods, is also included. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Praise of Folly and Letter to Maarten van Dorp (Penguin Classics)

United States

Penguin Classics

Erasmus Enchiridion Militis Christiani: An English Version (Early English Text Society/Original Series)

O'Donnell, Anne M.

Early English Text Society

The Colloquies of Erasmus

The University of Chicago Press

The Julius Exclusus of Erasmus. Trans. by Paul Pascal. Intro. and notes by J. Kelley Sowards.

Indiana University Press

Erasmi Roterodami Encomium Moriae, I.e. Stultitiae Laus: Praise of Folly Published at Basle in 1515 and Decorated With the Marginal Drawings of Hans Holbein the Younger, Now Reproduced in Facsimile...

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The Praise of Folly

The praise of folly

Yale University Press

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, social, and theological aims and methods of Northern Humanism. Clarence H. Miller's highly praised translation of The Praise of Folly, based on the definitive Latin text, echoes Erasmus' own lively style while retaining the nuances of the original text. In his introduction, Miller places the work in the context of Erasmus as humanist and theologian. In a new afterword, William H. Gass playfully considers the meaning, or meanings, of folly and offers fresh insights into one of the great books of Western literature. Praise for the earlier edition:

First published in Paris in 1511, The Praise of Folly hasenjoyed enormous and highly controversial success from the author’s lifetime down to our own day.It hasno rival, except perhaps Thomas More’s Utopia, as the most intense and lively presentation of the literary, social, and theological aims and methods of Northern Humanism. Clarence H. Miller’s highly praised translation of The Praise of Folly, based on the definitive Latin text, echoes Erasmus’ own lively style while retaining the nuances of the original text. In his introduction, Miller places the work in the context of Erasmus as humanist and theologian. In a new afterword, William H. Gass playfully considers the meaning, or meanings, of folly and offers fresh insights into one of the great books of Western literature. Praise for the earlier edition: “An eminently reliable and fully annotated edition based on the Latin text.”—Library Journal “Exciting and brilliant, this is likely to be the definitive translation of The Praise of Folly intoEnglish.”—Richard J. Schoeck

The Praise of Folly (Yale Nota Bene)

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