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Praise of Folly (Paperback, New ed)
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Praise of Folly (Paperback, New ed)
Series: Great Minds
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List price R406
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Discovery Miles 3 620
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In the tradition of "fool literature" produced by the ferment of
new ideas that directly preceded the Protestant Reformation, Dutch
priest, humanist, and scholar Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)
composed "The Praise of Folly" in 1509. Under Folly's mask, Erasmus
boldly attacked the abuses of church and state, and pilloried the
faults of those he saw around him: idle superstition, pedantry,
religious hypocrisy, and human foolishness. In this elegant
translation from the Latin by John Wilson, the reader can savour a
great work of satire, which, in the classical tradition, chastises
human beings for their follies and excesses, not with a rod but
with a smile.
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