Erasmus of Rotterdam, “The Praise of Folly”

-A dazzling mixture of fantasy and satire–

Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval pieties in favour of a rich new vision of the individual’s potential. The Praise of Folly, written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, is Erasmus’s best-known work. Its dazzling mixture of fantasy and satire is narrated by a personification of Folly, dressed as a jester, who celebrates youth, pleasure, drunkenness and sexual desire, and goes on to lambast human pretensions, foibles and frailties, to mock theologians and monks and to praise the ‘folly’ of simple Christian piety.

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• Publisher: Intra S.r.l.s. (February 24, 2022)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 130 pages
• ISBN-13: 979-1259913371
• Weight: 7 ounces
• Dimensions: 5 x 0.33 x 8 inches
• Price: $ 9,99 and € 9,99 (paperback), € 3,99 (ebook Intra)

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