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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: 0-393-95749-7 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: October, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.80 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: "Great Guide to Enter the Mind and Times of Erasmus"
Comment: This edition has "some" of Erasmus' most influential works; namely, "The Praise of Folly", the political "Complaint for Peace", "Forewords to the Latin New Testament", "Julius Excluded from Heaven", the "Colloquis", and excerpts from his finest letters. These works are selected more to understand the humanistic side of Erasmus rather than the scholarly doctrinaire who labored for the peace of christendom. With these selections - entailed by fotenotes, the editor's prefaces, and critcical commentaries - this edition will invariably enhance a more intimate impression of the mind of Erasmus at the dawn of the reformation.
Rating: 5
Summary: Understanding Erasmus
Comment: I managed to stumble across Erasmus while reading William Manchester's "A World Lit Only By Fire", and was beyond intrigued by such a character as described that I had never even heard about. Of course, Erasmus had been mentioned in my presence often, but never in a direct context. So I pick up this book, hoping to find out what the deal was and what I was missing.
My entire view of the middle ages changed practically overnight. Do not miss the fact, people: Erasmus was THE deal. Erasmus makes Luther look like a limp little hothead. Erasmus is Jim Carrey to Voltaire's Carrot Top. Erasmus drows the candle of Aristophanes with a roaring torch. The ultimate critic, the ultimate wit, and the ultimate reason in an age of insanity. Without this fantastic book I may have passed a second 18 years without Erasmus as an inspiration. The pure genius and subtlety of truly the most underappreciated scholar of all time is laid out glowingly. Why did I waste my time with "Mandrake" and "Candide" when "In Praise of Folly" does the same job a thousand times better? Why on earth do we pay attention to Martin Luther, the most incompetant and ridiculous "reformer" of all time, when Erasmus was doing everything twice as good at exactly the same time?
Get this book, people. Understand Erasmus and understand a wisdom that defied an age of stupidity.
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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: Utopia: A Revised Translation Backgrounds Criticism (Norton Critical Edition) by Robert M. Adams, Thomas, Sir More ISBN: 0393961451 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: December, 1991 List Price(USD): $9.25 |
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Title: The Adages of Erasmus by Desiderius Erasmus, William Barker ISBN: 0802077404 Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Book of the Courtier by Baldassare, Conte Castiglione, Baldassarre Castiglione, George Bull ISBN: 0140441921 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: October, 1976 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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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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