The Praise of Folly and other Writings（愚人颂及其它）

This Norton Critical Edition provides a wide selection of Erasmus’s writings, translated from the Latin into fresh, modern English.
　　Besides the celebrated Praise of Folly, Robert M. Adams has included the political "Complaint of Peace," the brutal antipapal satire "Julius Excluded from Heaven," two versions of Erasmus’s important preface to the Latin translation of the New Testament, and a selection both serious and comic of his Colloquies and his letters. Adams has made these selections to emphasize the humane, rather than the doctrinaire, side of the first and arguably greatest humanist.
　　Critical commentary is provided in essays by H. R. Trevor-Roper, R. S. Allen, J. Huizinga, Mikhail Bakhtin, Paul Oskar Kristeller, and Robert M. Adams.
　　Also included are a Chronology of Erasmus’s life and a Selected Bibliography.

Language Notes Text: English, Latin (translation)

Selections from the Writings
　The Praise of Folly
　　Author’s Preface
　　The Praise of Folly
　The Compliant of Peace
　Two Forewords to the Latin Translation of the New Testament
　　Paraclesis: or, An Exhortation (1516)
　　Foreword to the Third Edition (1522)
　Julius Excluded from Heaven
　From The Colloquies
　　The Alchemy Scam
　　The Religious Feast
　　An Inquisition into Faith
　　The Abbot and the Learned Lady
　Letters
　　To Martin Dorp (May 1515) [A Defense of Folly]
　　To Beatus Rhenanus (ca. 15 October 1518) [The Hardships of Travel]
　　To Peter Tomiczi, Bishop of Cracow (31 August 1535) [A Tempered Perspective]
Critical Commentary
　H.R. Trevor-Roper, Desiderius Erasmus
　R.S. Allen, The Transalpine Renaissance
　J. Huizinga, The Erasmus’ Mind
　Mikhail Bakhtin, [Medieval and Renaissance Folk Humor]
　Paul Oskar Kristeller, Erasmus from an Italian Perspective
　Robert K. Adams, Draining and Filling: A Few Benchmarks in the History of Humanism
Erasmus: A Chronology
Selected Bibliography