IV-3 Ordinis Quarti Tomus Tertius: Moriae Encomium Id Est Stultitiae Laus (Opera Omnia Desiderii Erasmi - Erasmus, Opera Omnia) - Hardcover

9780444853837: IV-3 Ordinis Quarti Tomus Tertius: Moriae Encomium Id Est Stultitiae Laus (Opera Omnia Desiderii Erasmi - Erasmus, Opera Omnia)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0444853839 ISBN 13: 9780444853837

Publisher: Brill, 1979

In this volume of the Amsterdam edition of the Latin texts of Erasmus, Erasmus’ famous Praise of Folly is presented by Clarence Miller.

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About the Author

Edwin Rabbie, Ph.D. (1986) in Classics, University of Amsterdam, LL.M. (1994), Leiden University, is justice in the district court of The Hague. He has published critical editions of Hugo Grotius and other Neo-Latin authors.

Review

Professor Miller's Latin text has been prepared with admirable care and is based on a collation of all thirty-eight editions published before 1640. His description of each of these early editions and their interrelationships establishes for the first time an authoritative textual history for the Moria. His survey of the work's sources is unusually well-balanced, with special attention to classical influences and to late mediaeval models. Professor Miller's annotations to the text are impressive in their scope and should add significantly to our understanding of Erasmus' satire. In short, his annotations prove him equal to the extraordinary demands placed on an editor by Erasmus' penchant for learned joking, by his broad reading, and by his panoramic criticism of Renaissance society. Erasmus, who spent so much effort in making the classics of the past accessible to his contemporaries, would surely be pleased at the learning and scholarly care Professor Miller has brought to this edition of his own satirical classic. -- Renaissance Quarterly

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