Selections from the Writings
THE PRAISE OF FOLLY
Author’s Preface
The Praise of Folly
THE COMPLIANT OF PEACE
TWO FOREWORDS TO THE LATIN TRANSLATION OF THE NEW TESTAMENT
Paraclesis: or, An Exhortation (1516)
Foreword to the Third Edition (1522)
JULIUS EXCLUDED FROM HEAVEN
From The Colloquies
The Alchemy Scam
The Religious Feast
An Inquisition into Faith
The Abbot and the Learned Lady
LETTERS
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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