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Erasmus, Desiderius (1469-1536)
Erasmus, a Dutch humanist, was the greatest scholar of the northern Renaissance, the first editor of the New Testament, and also an important figure in patristics and classical literature.
Select Texts:
- Familiarium colloquiorum formulae, 1519.
- Christiani hominis institutum in fide Iesu et in amore, 1520.
- Libellus de conscribendis epistolis, 1521.
- A deuoute treatise vpon the Pater noster, 1526.
- De immensa dei misericordia, 1526.
- An exhortation to the diligent studye of scripture, 1529.
- A treatise perswadynge a man patientlye to suffre the deth of his frende, 1531.
- De contemptu mundi, The dispisyng of the worlde, 1532.
- De ciuilitate morun puerilium, 1532.
- A booke called in latyn Enchiridion militis christiani, and in englysshe the manuell of the christen knyght, 1533.
- The paraphrase of Erasmus Roterdame vpon the epistle of saint Paule vnto his discyple Titus, 1534.
- A playne and godly exposytion or declaration of the commune crede, 1534.
- The comparation of a vyrgin and a martyr, 1537.
- Preparation to deathe, 1538.
- Prouerbes or adagies, 1539.
- A dialoge or communication of two persons, 1540.
- Apophthegmes, 1542.
- The first tome or volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus upon the newe testamente, 1548.
- The second tome or volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus upon the newe testamente, 1549.
- The praise of folie, 1549.
- The complaint of peace, 1559.
