Folly on Folly

The Praise of Folly, a 1509 Latin Prose Work, in Rhymed English Verse

Fiction & Literature, Classics, Literary
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Author: Charles Packard ISBN: 9781491785560
Publisher: iUniverse Publication: January 7, 2016
Imprint: iUniverse Language: English
Author: Charles Packard
ISBN: 9781491785560
Publisher: iUniverse
Publication: January 7, 2016
Imprint: iUniverse
Language: English

Not for scholars, but for a new generation of readers unaware of Erasmuss unique genius. An innovative, ingenious update. Kirkus Reviews.

Packards verse translation does what it sets out to do: enlivens what otherwise can be heavy going. Puckerbrush Review

Astoundingly clever. The Classical Outlook

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.

Folly on Folly presents this classic transcript of the goddess Follys lecture delivered in a university hall to an audience of scholars. A persona invented by Erasmus, the goddess Folly has chosen herself as her subject. Her incongruous costumea scholars robe with the belled hat of a jestersuggests (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 humankind morewith most of the human foibles she cites, whether secular or spiritual, remaining with us today.

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

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Not for scholars, but for a new generation of readers unaware of Erasmuss unique genius. An innovative, ingenious update. Kirkus Reviews.

Packards verse translation does what it sets out to do: enlivens what otherwise can be heavy going. Puckerbrush Review

Astoundingly clever. The Classical Outlook

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.

Folly on Folly presents this classic transcript of the goddess Follys lecture delivered in a university hall to an audience of scholars. A persona invented by Erasmus, the goddess Folly has chosen herself as her subject. Her incongruous costumea scholars robe with the belled hat of a jestersuggests (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 humankind morewith most of the human foibles she cites, whether secular or spiritual, remaining with us today.

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

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