folly

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folly

The praise of folly

Presents an English translation of the Latin text by sixteenth-century Dutch theologian Desiderius Erasmus in which he illuminates the humanists' program for educational, religious, and theological reform through an ironic speech by the pagan goddess Folly in praise of herself.
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Praise of folly

and, Letter to Martin Dorp, 1515
1971
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