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In Praise of Folly starts off with a satirical learned encomium, in which Folly praises herself, after the manner of the Greek satirist Lucian, whose work Erasmus and Sir Thomas More had recently translated into Latin, a piece of virtuoso foolery; it then takes a darker tone in a series of orations, as Folly praises self-deception and madness and moves to a satirical examination of pious but superstitious abuses of Catholic doctrine and corrupt practices in parts of the Roman Catholic Church—to which Erasmus was ever faithful—and the folly of pedants. Erasmus had recently returned disappointed from Rome, where he had turned down offers of advancement in the curia, and Folly increasingly takes on Erasmus’ own chastising voice. The essay ends with a straightforward statement of Christian ideals.
- Sales Rank: #724427 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-02-27
- Released on: 2015-02-27
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Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Latin
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Erasmus wrote In Praise of Folly, his masterpiece of ironic literature, in less than a week while en route to England from Italy to visit his good friend Thomas More. He wrote it merely to amuse himself and he was astonished at its immediate and wide popularity. But his satire of the clergy, the upper classes, and general pretentiousness, narrated by the goddess Folly, daughter of Youth and Wealth, struck a chord and is considered by some historians to be one of the catalysts of the Protestant Reformation.
This might have disappointed Erasmus who, though critical of the Church, never intended to encourage a split and remained a faithful adherent until his death. Still read regularly in college English courses, Erasmus's timeless classic remains as relevant today as it was when first written nearly five hundred years ago.
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37 of 42 people found the following review helpful.
One of the best books of Literary Renaissance
By Roberto P. De Ferraz
In Praise of Folly (Encomiun Moriae in Latin) was written in 1509 by the Dutchman Erasmus of Rotterdam when he was guest to his English famous friend Thomas More,or Morus if you prefer, the author of the celebrated book Utopia. Given internal religious strife in Europe, and England was in no exception mood, these were pretty much dangerous times and many heads rolled and were to roll, More"s included, due to the persecution by Henry VIII. Whatever was to be said about the nettlesome religious matter had to be done with extrema caution in order to avoid the perilous verdicts of the Holy Tribunal.
Along with Thomas More, Desiderius Erasmus was one of the most important representatives of the Renaissance literary movement in northern Europe and what was casually presented by Erasmus as a booklet inspired by a casual play of words with the surname More (which is almost equal to Moriae, madness in Greek), was in fact an attempt to salvage what should be rescued of the Classical Greek Antiquity in Erasmus' opinionated argument and incorporated in the Christian thought of the time. Beneath an almost non-descript façade was an issue of utmost significance to the evolution of the so-called Natural Sciences, that were to benefit from advances of recent discoveries in Physics, Chemistry and later on Biology, but which were hindered to evolve by the so-called aristotelian taint inherited by the Scholastic medieveal tradition so dear to the traditionalist Catholic Church, a task difficult in itself but which Erasmus easily outdone with a satyrical style that offended no one, preserving all the respect to the Church hierarchy and its dogmas and, most importantly, the figure of Jesus Christ.
The book is in fact a small one but the reader is much rewarded by the richness of its content, where the author takes him by his hands and strolls with him trough ancient Greek and Roman mithology in a verbose prose at the same time easy, vigorous and stimulating, where one is impressed by the author's astounding erudiction, as if he was a northern true inheritor of the Tuscan Dante Aligheri (the Divine Comedy) in this purpose. This is certainly one of the best literary works of late Renaissance and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
THe praise of folly
By Jeffersonian
"The praise of folly" (Actually "In praise of folly) by Erasmus is a superb book, written originally in Latin, around 1498.
It was translated in over 30 languages very quickly!
The book is superb: humor and witty sarcasms... It was written anonymously but the pope found out quickly who wrote it... and laughed.
The Erasmus (of Rotterdam) Biography written by Princeton Pr. Van Loon (of Rotterdam too) is the third I have read, and the very best so far. Read this book if high quality ... does not scare
This book title (Moriah is latin for folly) is a pun with Erasmus's good friend Thomas Moore in England.
Thomas Moore was beheaded on "his friend" king Henry the VIII of England wrath.
The good old time of the inquisition...
Andre G.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Satirical Prose on the Shortcomings of the Upper Classes and Religious Institutions of the 16th Century
By Guerrilla Reader
Review of "In Praise of Folly," by Desiderius Erasmus. Erasmus was born in Rotterdam, Holland in 1466. He became an ordained priest in 1492. He then went on to become the Latin Secretary to the Bishop of Cambrai. After that he became a wandering scholar and traveled to England in 1499 at the invitation of Lord Mountjoy. While in England Erasmus became friends with John Colet, Thomas More, Thomas Linacre, Willam Grocyn, and other Humanists at Oxford. He wrote Encomium moriae ("The Praise of Folly") in 1509 as a letter to his friend Thomas More and had it published in Paris in 1511. Within the letter Erasmus displays wit in his satire of the Goddess Folly (the protagonist). Within the pages Folly praises herself endlessly, arguing that life would be dull and distasteful without her. "Of earthly existence, Folly pompously states, 'you'll find nothing frolic or fortunate that it owes not to me.'" "Folly venerates her comrades, Self Love, Flattery, Oblivion, and Pleasure, whom she believes promote friendship and tolerance within society. Above all, Folly lauds self-deception and foolishness, finding Biblical support in favor of her beliefs." In conclusion, Folly speaks directly of Christianity, regarding its religious authority and practices. For example on page 7: "Nor will it be amiss also to imitate the rhetoricians of our times, who think themselves in a manner gods if like horse leeches they can but appear to be double-tongued, and believe they have done a mighty act if in their Latin orations they can but shuffle in some ends of Greek like mosaic work, though altogether by head and shoulders and less to the purpose. And if they want hard words, they run over some worm-eaten manuscript and pick out half a dozen of the most old and obsolete to confound their reader, believing, no doubt, that they that understand their meaning will like it better, and they that do not will admire it the more by how much the less they understand it. Nor is this way of ours of admiring what seems most foreign without its particular grace; for if there happen to be any more ambitious than others, they may give their applause with a smile, and like the ass, shake their ears, that they may be thought to understand more than the rest of their neighbors." In Praise of Folly makes quite a statement then about Renaissance Christian ideals. Erasmus died in Switzerland in 1536. Five stars.
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