by Erasmo de Rotterdam · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788481230727
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«Elogio de la locura» is the satirical essay by Erasmus of Rotterdam, published by Cantábrico de Prensa in paperback (191 pages, in Spanish).
The work gives the floor to Folly, who praises herself while reviewing with humor and irony the customs, beliefs and contradictions of sixteenth-century society: vanity, superstition, religious hypocrisy and the excesses of academic learning. Erasmus turns this speech into a satire on human nature and the morality of his time.
Written in Latin in 1509 and published in 1511; this Spanish edition appeared in 1993.
For those interested in philosophy and classical satire, especially readers who want to approach humanist thought.
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.
