Collected Works of Erasmus Volume 34: Adages: II vii 1 to III iii 100

Desiderius Erasmus; R.A.B. Mynors [trans]

ISBN 10: 0802028314 / ISBN 13: 9780802028310

Published by University of Toronto Press, 1992

About this Item

Minor shelf wear to book and dust jacket. Owner name on fly leaf. About 20 pages have some ink MARKINGS. Otherwise a nice solid volume. Index. x, 458 pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Collected Works of Erasmus Volume 34: Adages: II vii 1 to III iii 100
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802028314
• ISBN 13: 9780802028310
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

This is one of seven volumes that will contain the more than 4000 adages that Erasmus gathered and commented on, sometimes in a few lines and sometimes in full-scale essays. The notes identify the classical sources and indicate how Erasmus' reading and thinking developed over the quarter-century spanned by the eight revisions of the original work. Many of the proverbs cited by Erasmus are still in our common stock of speech.

Volume 34 of the Collected Works of Erasmus series.

About the Author

Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536), a Dutch humanist, Catholic priest, and scholar, was one of the most influential Renaissance figures. A professor of divinity and Greek, Erasmus wrote, taught, and travelled, meeting with Europe’s foremost scholars. A prolific author, Erasmus wrote on both ecclesiastic and general human interest subjects.
R.A.B. Mynors is Corpus Christi Professor of Latin, Oxford University.