by Erasmo de Rotterdam · MESTAS Ediciones, S.L. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788495311740
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«Elogio de la locura» is the philosophical essay by Erasmus of Rotterdam, published by Mestas Ediciones in paperback (176 pages, in Spanish).
In this work, Erasmus of Rotterdam reflects on folly and its role in society, combining the literary, social and theological strands of humanism. The text brings together the various impulses of early sixteenth-century humanism.
It belongs to the Biblioteca de Filosofía collection, number 10, with a translation from Latin by Julio Puyol in this 2001 edition. The work was originally published in 1508 under the title Moriae Encomium.
Reading for those interested in philosophy, the classic essay and Renaissance 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.
