Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466 1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval pieties in favour of a rich new vision of the individual s potential. Praise of Folly, written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, is Erasmus s best-known work. Its dazzling mixture of fantasy and satire is narrated by a personification of Folly, dressed as a jester, w

Chastises human beings for their follies and excesses, not with a rod but with a smile.

A treatise on the moral and practical education of children. It focuses on matters such as how to dress, how to behave at table, how to converse with one's elders and contemporaries, how to address the opposite sex and much else.

Written in 1509, this is a satire on the intrinsic vanity of the social order and an exhortation towards a humanistic Christianity.

One of the most important books of the a --E advice-to-princesa -- published in the Renaissance.

Erasmus ranges from light-hearted jibes to vehement denunciation of the theologians and churchmen, monastic life and the condition of the Church, and then seriously expounds the virtues of the Christian way of life. This work is one of the best satirical classics of the Renaissance.