The Praise of Folly: A Rhymed English Verse Version of the Original Latin Prose - Couverture rigide

Packard, Charles

 
9781440123634: The Praise of Folly: A Rhymed English Verse Version of the Original Latin Prose
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ISBN 10 : 1440123632 ISBN 13 : 9781440123634
Editeur : iUniverse, 2009

Synopsis

By his own account, Desiderius Erasmus, a Dutch monk and scholar, wrote his 1509 Latin prose masterpiece, The Praise of Folly, "in seven days, more or less" while a guest at the London home of his friend and fellow humanist, Sir Thomas More. Friends with whom Erasmus shared his manuscript arranged its publication in Paris in 1511 in an unauthorized edition. Erasmus, surprised but pleased by the immediate popularity of the work, revised it seven times, with thirty-six editions appearing during his lifetime.

The Praise of Folly is a transcript of a lecture delivered in a university hall to an audience of scholars. The lecturer is the goddess Folly, a persona invented by Erasmus. Folly has chosen herself as her subject. Her incongruous costume, a scholar's robe but the belled hat of a jester, suggests (correctly) that her words will be a mix of the serious with the hilarious. Throughout the lecture, she makes her case that foolishness, not rational thought, benefits mankind more. Readers will note that most of the human foibles discussed by Folly remain with us today.

This version of The Praise of Folly, the first in verse, was written to commemorate the 500th anniversary of this enduring work's creation.

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À propos de l?auteur

Charles Packard studied Latin at Bowdoin College and Harvard University. After an eight-year tenure teaching Latin, he wrote several English textbooks, grades 3-12. Moving to Maine in 1987, he resumed the teaching of Latin. His translations of Caesar, Horace, and Erasmus have appeared in "The Classical Journal" and The Classical Outlook."

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1440123632
ISBN 13 
9781440123634
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
260
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9781440123627: The Praise of Folly: A Rhymed English Verse Version of the Original Latin Prose

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  1440123624 ISBN 13 :  9781440123627
Editeur : iUniverse, 2009
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