The Praise of Folly

Name: The Praise of Folly
Author: Erasmus Desiderius

by Erasmus Desiderius

Satirical dialogue personifying Folly as narrator criticizing human vanity and vice

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Erasmus Desiderius

The supreme humanist scholar of the Northern Renaissance, Erasmus edited the Greek New Testament, produced scholarly editions of Church Fathers, and wrote The Praise of Folly, the greatest satirical essay of the period. His quarrel with Luther over free will is one of the defining debates of Reformation thought.

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