Praise of Folly
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- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
30 March 1994
Summary
A satirical, witty text from the greatest humanist of the Renaissance
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 celebra…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140446081 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140446087 |
| Author: | Desiderius Erasmus, A. Levi, Betty Radice |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 30 March 1994 |
| Weight: | 193g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 129mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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About The Author
Desiderius Erasmus
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 died in Basle in 1536.
Betty Radice became joint editor of the Penguin Classics in 1964, and translated from the Latin, Greek and Italian. She was an honorary fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford. She died in 1983.
A.H.T. Levi was Buchanan Professor of French Language and Literature at the University of St Andrews and has published extensively on the Renaissance.
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