The Praise of Folly and Other Writings,9780393957495

The Praise of Folly and Other Writings

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780393957495
ISBN10: 0393957497
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1989-10-17
Publisher(s): W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary

Besides the celebrated Praise of Folly, Robert M. Adams has includedthe political "Complaint of Peace," the brutal antipapal satire "JuliusExcluded from Heaven," two versions of Erasmus#xC3;#xA2;#xC2;#x80;#xC2;#x99;s important preface tothe Latin translation of the New Testament, and a selection bothserious and comic of his Colloquies and his letters.#xA0; Adams has madethese 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 RobertM. Adams. Also included are a Chronology of Erasmus#xC3;#xA2;#xC2;#x80;#xC2;#x99;s life and a SelectedBibliography.

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface vii
Selections from the Writings
1(264)
The Praise of Folly
3(85)
Author's Preface
3(3)
The Praise of Folly
6(82)
The Complaint of Peace
88(29)
Two Forewords to the Latin Translation of the New Testament
117(25)
Paraclesis: or, An Exhortation (1516)
118(9)
Foreword to the Third Edition (1522)
127(15)
Julius Excluded from Heaven
142(32)
From The Colloquies
174(54)
The Alchemy Scam
175(6)
The Religious Feast
181(31)
An Inquisition into Faith
212(10)
The Abbot and the Learned Lady
222(6)
Letters
228(37)
To Martin Dorp (May 1515) [A Defense of Folly]
228(23)
To Beatus Rhenanus (ca. 15 October 1518) [The Hardships of Travel]
251(8)
To Peter Tomiczi, Bishop of Cracow (31 August 1535) [A Tempered Perspective]
259(6)
Critical Commentary
265(74)
H.R. Trevor-Roper
Desiderius Erasmus
R.S. Allen
The Transalpine Renaissance
J. Huizinga
Erasmus's Mind
Mikhail Bakhtin
[Medieval and Renaissance Folk Humor]
Paul Oskar Kristeller
Erasmus from an Italian Perspective
Robert M. Adams
Draining and Filling: A Few Benchmarks in the History of Humanism
326(13)
Erasmus: A Chronology 339(2)
Selected Bibliography 341

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