Boer, Harm den.

In praise of folly. A critical edition of the Spanish translation of Erasmus' Morias Enkomion [electronic resource] / Harm den Boer; Jorge Ledo. - Leiden : Koninklijke Brill NV, 2013. - 1 online resource (300 p. ) - Heterodoxia Iberica . - Heterodoxia Iberica. .

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In Early Modern Spain, only a limited number of the works by Erasmus was available in vernacular, due to inquisitorial censorship. In the first Spanish index of forbidden books any translation of the "Praise of Folly", Erasmus' most famous work, was explicitly prohibited, which led many scholars to believe that a Spanish "Moria" must have existed. Efforts to find the text were hitherto unsuccessful. The present edition, based upon the discovery of a seventeenth century manuscript of a Spanish translation of "Moria" extant at Ets Haim/Livraria Montezinos (Amsterdam) offers the presently only surviving proof of the existence of that translation.

9004231315 9789004231313 9789004269040 (electronic book)

10.1163/9789004269040


Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536. Spanish. Moriae encomium.

PA8512 / 2013