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Moria de Erasmo Roterodamo is the first known complete translation of Erasmus's
Encomium Moriae into Spanish, composed in the sixteenth-century and copied in a seventeenth-century manuscript preserved at Ets Haim/Livraria Montezinos (Amsterdam).
About the author
Harm den Boer, Ph. D (1992) in Spanish Literature is a Full Professor at the Universität Basel. He is author of
La literatura sefardí de Amsterdam (Alcalá de Henares, 1996), and a wide-ranging number of articles on Early Modern Iberian Literature.
Jorge Ledo (PhD Centre for Modern Thought, University of Aberdeen, 2009) is at present a Distiguished Researcher at the InTalent Programme (sponsored by Inditex and the Universidade da Coruña). He had previously been an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan (2009-2011) and at the University of Basel (2011-2017). He is the chief editor of Brill's
Heterodoxia Iberica Series. He is an expert in some aspects of Renaissance Studies, mainly in the history of Spanish religious and political dissidence during the Renaissance, Erasmus's Studies, History of Poetics in Europe, History of the Ideas on Communication and Dissent in Neo-Latin Culture from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, and the History of Concepts and Emotions.
