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Collected Works of Erasmus: Adages: I I 1 to I V 100, Volume 31

Collected Works of Erasmus: Adages: I I 1 to I V 100, Volume 31

Erasmus, Desiderius
Mynors, R. a. B.
Phillips, Margaret Mann

Paperback

Series: Collected Works of Erasmus

PhilosophyMedieval & Renaissance HistoryLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 1442631392
ISBN13: 9781442631397
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: Aug 1 1982
Pages: 508
Weight: 1.93
Height: 1.03 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

Erasmus' Adagia has been called 'one of the world's biggest bedside books, ' and certainly the more than 4000 proverbs and maxims gathered and commented on by Erasmus, sometimes in a few lines and sometimes in full-scale essays, have great appeal for both scholar and educated layman. The aim of the Adages was to recapture, in this handy portmanteau form, the outlook and way of life of the classical world through its customs, legends, and social institutions, and to put within reach of a modern public the accumulated wisdom of the past. Each adage is traced in the works of as many authors as Erasmus had to hand; always an authority is given (usually several) and often a close reference providing chapter and verse.

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