Erasmus, a true child of the Renaissance, wrote with a brilliance seldom equalled in the history of letters. His withering catalogue of human follies and vanities is still just as timely as it was over four and a half centuries ago. A master stylist, famed for his elegant prose, he was also a great humanist, who believed in the ultimate triumph of reason over stupidity and prejudice.
His most famous work, THE PRAISE OF FOLLY, is a dazzling display of his supreme gift for irony, parody and satire. His COLLOQUIES are a witty and far-ranging demonstration not only of Erasmus' own ideas on crucial human questions, but of the basic thinking of his time. His LETTERS a fascinating personal view of such famous Renaissance figures as Sir Thomas More, Thomas Wolsey, Pope Leo X, ind Martin Luther.