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.
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 ...