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The Praise of Folly: Updated Edition - Erasmus, Desiderius, and Grafton, Anthony (Foreword by)
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"Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) was a Dutch humanist, scholar, and social critic, and one of the most important figures of the Renaissance. The Praise of Folly is perhaps his best-known work. Originally written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, this satiric celebration of pleasure, youth, and intoxication irreverently pokes fun at the pieties of theologians and the foibles that make us all human, while ultimately reaffirming the value of Christian ideals. No other book displays quite so completely the transition from the ...

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The Praise of Folly: Updated Edition 2015, Princeton University Press, Princeton

ISBN-13: 9780691165646

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