Collected Works of Erasmus Adages: I VI 1 to I X 100, Volume 32

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext This fifth of seven volumes on the Adages continues from where the Collected Works of Erasmus volume 34 left off and includes 900 more adages from III iv 1 to IV ii 100. The aim of the Adages volumes in the CWE is to provide a fully annotated, accurate, and readable English version of the more than 4000 adages gathered, and commented on by Erasmus, sometimes in a few lines and sometimes in full-scale essays. Following in the tradition of meticulous scholarship for which the Collected Works of Erasmus is widely known, the notes to this volume identify the classical sources and illustrate how Erasmus' reading and thinking developed over twenty-five years, a period spanned by eight revisions of the first edition of the work which appeared in 1508 and won immediate acclaim. Many of the proverbs cited by Erasmus are still in use today. This volume contains the second 500 of the more than 4000 adages gathered and commented on by Erasmus, sometimes in a few lines and sometimes in full-scale essays.

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• Authors: Desiderius Erasmus, Erasmus, Erasmus Desiderius
• Assisted by: Roger A. Mynors (Editor), R. A. B. Mynors (Translation), R.A.B. Mynors (Translation), R A B Mynors (Translation)
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 01.03.1989
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Religious writings, prayers, songbooks, religious
• EAN: 9780802024121
• ISBN: 978-0-8020-2412-1
• Pages: 412
• Series: Collected Works of Erasmus; Adages VI 1 to I X 100 > I; Collected Works of Erasmus; Adages VI 1 to I X 100 > I