The praise of folly and other writings : a new translation with critical commentary

Author(s)

• Erasmus, Desiderius
• Adams, Robert Martin

Bibliographic Information

The praise of folly and other writings : a new translation with critical commentary

Desiderius Erasmus ; chosen, translated, and edited by Robert M. Adams

（Norton critical editions）

Norton, c1989

1st ed

Note

Bibliography: p. [341]

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Besides the celebrated Praise of Folly, Robert M. Adams has included the political "Complaint of Peace," the brutal antipapal satire "Julius Excluded from Heaven," two versions of Erasmus's important preface to the Latin translation of the New Testament, and a selection both serious and comic of his Colloquies and his letters. Adams has made these selections to emphasize the humane, rather than the doctrinaire, side of the first and arguably greatest humanist. Critical commentary is provided in essays by H. R. Trevor-Roper, R. S. Allen, J. Huizinga, Mikhail Bakhtin, Paul Oskar Kristeller, and Robert M. Adams. Also included are a Chronology of Erasmus's life and a Selected Bibliography.

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Details

• NCID: BA08003469
• ISBN:
  • 0393957497
• LCCN: 88021851
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: lat
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 340, [1] p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PA8502.E5
  • DC19 : 878/.0409
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536 -- Translations, English
  • LCSH : Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536 -- Criticism and interpretation
  • LCSH : Humanists
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00246310