Erasmus, Desiderius
ERASMUS, DESIDERIUS (1469?–1536), Dutch scholar, is called the "prince of humanists." Neither the date nor the place of Erasmus's birth is known with ce...
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Erasmus, Desiderius(1466?–1536)
Desiderius Erasmus, the great Renaissance humanist and scholar, was born at either Rotterdam or Gouda in Holland, the illegitimate son of a priest. As a child he...
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The Dutch scholar Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) was the dominant figure of the early-16th-century humanist movement. The intellectual arbiter during the last years of Christian unity, he remains one ...
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In July 1514 Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam left England for Basel, Switzerland, and the Froben Press to publish the annotated New Testament and the critical edition of the works of Saint Jerome on w...
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Desiderius Erasmus was born in Holland Germany in 1466. His parents died of the plague when he was only 13. His guardians pressured him into joining a monastery soon after that. He went on to refer t...
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Praise of Folly: A Current Perspective
According to Merriam-Webster's online dictionary, satire is "a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn." When examining satire o...
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Erasmus, Desiderius
Erasmus, Desiderius (1466?-1536)
Desiderius Erasmus
Desiderius Erasmus
