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Against War
Desiderius Erasmus
Against War
Desiderius Erasmus
Book Excerptfessor of divinity at Cambridge; but Cambridge was far away from the centre of European thought and of literary activities. He left England before the end of the year for Basel, where the greater part of his life thenceforth was passed. Froben had made Basel the chief literary centre of production for the whole of Europe. Through Froben's printing-presses Erasmus could reach a wider audience than was allowed him at any court, however favourable to pure religion and the new learning. It was at this juncture that he made an eloquent and far-reaching appeal, on a matter which lay very near his heart, to the conscience of Christendom. The Adagia, that vast work which was, at least to his own generation, Erasmus's foremost title to fame, has long ago passed into the rank of those monuments of literature "dont la reputation s'affermira toujours parcequ'on ne les lit guère." So far as Erasmus is more than a name for most modern readers, it is on slighter and more popular works that any direct knowledge
Mídia | Livros Paperback Book (Livro de capa flexível e brochura) |
Lançado | 27 de agosto de 2020 |
ISBN13 | 9798674517528 |
Editoras | Independently Published |
Páginas | 48 |
Dimensões | 152 × 229 × 3 mm · 81 g |
Idioma | English |
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