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The Praise of Folly

by Desiderius Erasmus

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Tags: Classics, Essay

ISBN:1406936472

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The Protestant Reformation was an historical event that dramatically changed Europe—and the world—forever. This essay is considered to be a major catalyst for that revolution. Folly it most certainly is not.


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ERASMUS OF ROTTERDAM to his friend THOMAS MORE:
As I was coming awhile since out of Italy for England, that I might not waste all that time I was to sit on horseback in foolish and illiterate fables, I chose rather one while to revolve with myself something of our common studies, and other while ...

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