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The praise of folly / by Desiderius Erasmus ; translated from the Latin, with an essay & commentary by Hoyt Hopewell Hudson ; with a new foreword by Anthony Grafton.
- Title
- The praise of folly / by Desiderius Erasmus ; translated from the Latin, with an essay & commentary by Hoyt Hopewell Hudson ; with a new foreword by Anthony Grafton.
- Author
- Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536
- Publication
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2015.
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- Description
- liv, 165 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "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 of pleasure, youth, and intoxication irreverently pokes fun at the pieties of theologians and the foibles that make us all human, while ultimately reaffirming the value of Christian ideals. No other book displays quite so completely the transition from the medieval to the modern world, and Erasmus's wit, wisdom, and critical spirit have lost none of their timeliness today."--Publisher's description.
- Series Statement
- Princeton classics
- Uniform Title
- Moriae encomium. English
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Princeton classics
- Alternative Title
- Moriae encomium.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Satirical literature
- Early works
- Satirical literature.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-153) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0691165645
- 9780691165646
- LCCN
- 2015930404
- OCLC
- 894625437
- SCSB-12192606
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library