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Originally written to amuse his friend sir thomas more, this satiric celebration of pleasure, youth, and intoxication irreverently pokes fun at the pieties of theologians and the foibles that make. Woven throughout her monologue, a thread of irony calls into question the goddesss own words, in which ambiguities, allusions and interpretations collide in a way that makes praise of folly enduringly fascinating. Originally written to amuse his friend sir thomas more, this satiric celebration of pleasure, youth, and intoxication irreverently pokes fun at the pieties. The praise of folly isbn 9781775415978 pdf epub desiderius. Desiderius erasmus of rotterdam 14661536 was known as prince of the humanists though a theologian, a catholic priest and the leading european scholar of his time. This onepage guide includes a plot summary and brief analysis of in praise of folly by desiderius erasmus. This document has been generated from xsl extensible stylesheet language source with renderx xep formatter, version 3. Like all great minds erasmus has the faculty of being perennially contemporary, and the praise of folly is a gay, witty revelation of the subtleties and intricacies of the scholarly mind of the renaissance. Erasmus in praise of folly 1922 edition open library. I bought this version from amazon and have read it through.