Contents
- Selections from the Writings
- The Praise of Folly
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- Author’s Preface
- The Praise of Folly
- The Compliant of Peace
- Two Forewords to the Latin Translation of the New Testament
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- Paraclesis: or, An Exhortation (1516)
- Foreword to the Third Edition (1522)
- Julius Excluded from Heaven
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- From The Colloquies
- The Alchemy Scam
- The Religious Feast
- An Inquisition into Faith
- The Abbot and the Learned Lady
- Letters
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- To Martin Dorp (May 1515) [A Defense of Folly]
- To Beatus Rhenanus (ca. 15 October 1518) [The Hardships of Travel]
- To Peter Tomiczi, Bishop of Cracow (31 August 1535) [A Tempered Perspective]
- Critical Commentary
- H.R. Trevor-Roper, Desiderius Erasmus
- R.S. Allen, The Transalpine Renaissance
- J. Huizinga, The Erasmus’ Mind
- Mikhail Bakhtin, [Medieval and Renaissance Folk Humor]
- Paul Oskar Kristeller, Erasmus from an Italian Perspective
- Robert K. Adams, Draining and Filling: A Few Benchmarks in the History of Humanism
- Erasmus: A Chronology
Selected Bibliography
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