by Erasmo de Rotterdam · tapa dura · ISBN 9788448701253
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«Elogio de la locura» is the satirical essay by Erasmus of Rotterdam, published by Altaya in hardcover (160 pages, in Spanish).
Written in Latin in 1509, the text gives the floor to personified folly, who praises herself while Erasmus uses her speech to satirize superstitions, social customs, and abuses of the Western Church. A key work of Renaissance humanism, its irony anticipated some debates of the Protestant Reformation.
The original Latin title is Moriae Encomium; this 1993 edition, with a translation by Pedro Rodríguez Santidrián, belongs to the Grandes Obras del Pensamiento collection.
Recommended for readers of philosophy and classics who want to approach Renaissance humanism and the social criticism of the era.
Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, commonly known in English as Erasmus of Rotterdam or simply Erasmus, was a Dutch humanist, Catholic theologian, and pioneering philologist and educationalist. He was, through his writings and translations, one of the most influential scholars of the Northern Renaissance and a major figure of Western culture.
