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Praise of Folly Author: Erasmus
ISBN: 9780140446081 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 256 Published: 1 March 1994 Country of Publication: GB Dimensions (cm): 19.8 x 13.3 x 1.5 Description: 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.
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Desiderius Erasmus, born about 1469, went to school at Gouda, Utrecht and Deventer. He became the most famous humanist of the Northern Renaissance. Erasmus travelled widely, and his thought was particularly influential in England, where he became a close friend of Thomas More. He d...
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