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Title: In Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus ISBN: 0-486-42689-0 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 10 February, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $2.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the best books of Literary Renaissance
Comment: In Praise of Folly (Encomiun Moriae in Latin) was written in 1509 by the Dutchman Erasmus of Rotterdam when he was guest to his English famous friend Thomas More,or Morus if you prefer, the author of the celebrated book Utopia. Given internal religious strife in Europe, and England was in no exception mood, these were pretty much dangerous times and many heads rolled and were to roll, More"s included, due to the persecution by Henry VIII. Whatever was to be said about the nettlesome religious matter had to be done with extrema caution in order to avoid the perilous verdicts of the Holy Tribunal.
Along with Thomas More, Desiderius Erasmus was one of the most important representatives of the Renaissance literary movement in northern Europe and what was casually presented by Erasmus as a booklet inspired by a casual play of words with the surname More (which is almost equal to Moriae, madness in Greek), was in fact an attempt to salvage what should be rescued of the Classical Greek Antiquity in Erasmus' opinionated argument and incorporated in the Christian thought of the time. Beneath an almost non-descript façade was an issue of utmost significance to the evolution of the so-called Natural Sciences, that were to benefit from advances of recent discoveries in Physics, Chemistry and later on Biology, but which were hindered to evolve by the so-called aristotelian taint inherited by the Scholastic medieveal tradition so dear to the traditionalist Catholic Church, a task difficult in itself but which Erasmus easily outdone with a satyrical style that offended no one, preserving all the respect to the Church hierarchy and its dogmas and, most importantly, the figure of Jesus Christ.
The book is in fact a small one but the reader is much rewarded by the richness of its content, where the author takes him by his hands and strolls with him trough ancient Greek and Roman mithology in a verbose prose at the same time easy, vigorous and stimulating, where one is impressed by the author's astounding erudiction, as if he was a northern true inheritor of the Tuscan Dante Aligheri (the Divine Comedy) in this purpose. This is certainly one of the best literary works of late Renaissance and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
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Title: Utopia by Sir Thomas Moore ISBN: 0486295834 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 05 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli ISBN: 0553212788 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 August, 1984 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
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Title: Discourse on Free Will by Desiderius Erasmus, Erasmus-Luther, Martin Luther ISBN: 0804461406 Publisher: Continuum Pub Group Pub. Date: December, 1985 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Oration on the Dignity of Man by Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola, A. Robert Gaponigri, Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola, A. Robert Caponigri ISBN: 0895267136 Publisher: Regnery Publishing Pub. Date: May, 1996 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Praise of Folly and Other Writings: A New Translation With Critical Commentary (Norton Critical Edition) by Desiderius Erasmus, Robert M. Adams ISBN: 0393957497 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: October, 1989 List Price(USD): $12.80 |
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