Desiderius Erasmus Life Stories, Books, & Links


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Picture of Desiderius Erasmus, author of In Praise of Folly; fifteenth and sixteenth century Dutch Literature

Desiderius Erasmus
(1466 - 1536)

Category: Dutch Literature

Born: August 18, 1466
Rotterdam, Holland

Died: May 19, 1536
Basel, Switzerland

Related authors:
Francois Rabelais, Thomas More

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4/1/1962		Ship of Fools and Other Folly When Katherine Anne Porter's best-selling Ship of Fools was published on April Fools Day, 1962, it joined a long tradition of Fool literature. Porter took her title from a moral allegory of the same name published in the fifteenth century, but in the third century St. Chrysostom had lastingly defined the Fool as "he who gets slapped," and even then the slapping had already been going on for some time. . . .

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Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters by R. A. B. Mynors, D. F. S. Thomson, W. K. Ferguson (Translator), Desiderius Erasmus, Beatrice Corrigan (Editor) letters
The Erasmus Reader by Desiderius Erasmus, Erika Rummel (Editor) guide
The Praise of Folly non-fiction

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Erasmus and the Age of Reformation
by Johan Huizinga
non-fiction

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Online Books Page
Features links to electronic texts including a rare 1549 printing of The Praise of Folie, Moriae Encomium, and a more contemporary translation (The Praise of Folly). A link to the Erasmus Text Project finds Colloquia ("The Religious Treat" or, "The Godly Feast") and Three Prayers from the Precationes.

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