Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536) was a Dutch humanist, scholar, and social critic, and one of the most important figures of the Renaissance. The Praise of Folly is perhaps his best-known work. Originally written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, this satiric celebration of pleasure, youth, and intoxication irreverently pokes fun at the pieties of theologians and the foibles that make us all human, while ultimately reaffirming the value of Christian ideals. No other book displays quite so completely the transition from the medieval to the modern world, and Erasmus’s wit, wisdom, and critical spirit have lost none of their timeliness today.
This Princeton Classics edition of The Praise of Folly features a new foreword by Anthony Grafton that provides an essential introduction to this iridescent and enduring masterpiece.
"Erasmus’s Praise of Folly is certainly one of the most characteristic and delightful pieces of Renaissance literature and has rightly enjoyed a wide popularity. . . . This handsome volume will certainly please the student as well as the general reader."--Journal of Philosophy
Anthony Grafton is the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University.
"[Hudson] has spared no pains to provide whatever might increase the general reader’s appreciation and enjoyment of this world-famous, perennially humane satire."--John Archer Gee, Journal of English and Germanic Philology
Acknowledgments xxiii
The Folly of Erasmus: An Essay xxv
Preface: Desiderius Erasmus to His Friend Thomas More 1
Moriae Encomium, That Is, The Praise of Folly 7
Analysis 129
Notes 143
Index of Proper Names 155
El Despertar
El Dragón de Hielo
Juego de Tronos: Cancion de Hielo y Fuego 1. Omnium
Ikigami 09 (Cómic)