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The Praise of Folly

  • ISBN-13: 9780879758851
  • Publisher: GLOBE PEQUOT
    Imprint: PROMETHEUS
  • By Desiderius Erasmus
  • Price: AUD $30.99
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  • Local release date: 01/05/1994
  • Format: Paperback 196 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Religion: general [HRA]Latin [2ADL]
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In the tradition of "fool literature" produced by the ferment of new ideas that directly preceded the Protestant Reformation, Dutch priest, humanist, and scholar Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) composed "The Praise of Folly" in 1509. Under Folly's mask, Erasmus boldly attacked the abuses of church and state, and pilloried the faults of those he saw around him: idle superstition, pedantry, religious hypocrisy, and human foolishness. In this elegant translation from the Latin by John Wilson, the reader can savour a great work of satire, which, in the classical tradition, chastises human beings for their follies and excesses, not with a rod but with a smile.
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