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The praise of folly and other writings [Book] : a new translation with critical commentary / Desiderius Erasmus ; chosen, translated, and edited by Robert M. Adams.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: A Norton critical editionPublication details: New York : Norton, c1989.Edition: 1st edDescription: viii, 340, [1] p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0393957497
  • 9780393957495
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 878 .0409 19
Other classification:
  • 878.0409
Summary: 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. .
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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. .

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