by Erasmo de Rotterdam · GRUPO EDITORIAL G.R.M., S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788471753021
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«Elogio de la locura» is the satirical essay by Erasmus of Rotterdam, published by Grupo Editorial G.R.M. in paperback (115 pages, in Spanish).
In this discourse, personified Folly praises herself and reviews the human condition. With irony, Erasmus criticizes social customs, false knowledge, ecclesiastical abuses, and political ambitions, leading the reader to recognize universal foolishness and to appreciate reason and Christian wisdom.
Edition framed in the Grandes Autores collection, with translation by Luis Blanco Vila and prologue by Rafael Navarro-Valls.
For readers of classics and philosophical satire who want to approach the thought of Renaissance humanism.
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.
