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In Praise of Folly: A Satirical Learned Encomium
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Paperback
With Erasmus, Hans Holbein |
from Createspace Independent Pub (July 30, 2015)
9781515290230 | details & prices | 172 pages | 7.00 × 10.00 × 0.39 in. | 0.88 lbs | List price $8.95
About: In Praise of Folly by Erasmus - In Praise of Folly starts off with a satirical learned encomium, in which Folly praises herself, after the manner of the Greek satirist Lucian, whose work Erasmus and Sir Thomas More had recently translated into Latin, a piece of virtuoso foolery; it then takes a darker tone in a series of orations, as Folly praises self-deception and madness and moves to a satirical examination of pious but superstitious abuses of Catholic doctrine and corrupt practices in parts of the Roman Catholic Churchâto which Erasmus was ever faithfulâand the folly of pedants.
About: In Praise of Folly by Erasmus - In Praise of Folly starts off with a satirical learned encomium, in which Folly praises herself, after the manner of the Greek satirist Lucian, whose work Erasmus and Sir Thomas More had recently translated into Latin, a piece of virtuoso foolery; it then takes a darker tone in a series of orations, as Folly praises self-deception and madness and moves to a satirical examination of pious but superstitious abuses of Catholic doctrine and corrupt practices in parts of the Roman Catholic Churchâto which Erasmus was ever faithfulâand the folly of pedants.