by Erasmo De Rotterdam · Espasa-Calpe. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788423911790
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In Praise of Folly, sometimes translated as In Praise of More, is an essay written in Latin in 1509 by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam. In this work, Erasmus criticizes the superstitions and traditions of European society, as well as the Western Church. The book, considered one of the most notable of the Renaissance, played an important role in the beginnings of the Protestant Reformation.
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, commonly known in English as Erasmus of Rotterdam or simply Erasmus, was a Dutch humanist, Catholic theologian, and pioneering philologist and educationalist. He was, through his writings and translations, one of the most influential scholars of the Northern Renaissance and a major figure of Western culture.
