Erasmian Wit and Proverbial Wisdom: An Illustrated Moral Compendium for Francois I: Facsimile of a Dismembered Manuscript with Introduction and Descri by Jean Michel Massing
Erasmian Wit and Proverbial Wisdom: An Illustrated Moral Compendium for Francois I: Facsimile of a Dismembered Manuscript with Introduction and Descri
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Jean Michel Massing
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Erasmian Wit and Proverbial Wisdom: An Illustrated Moral Compendium for Francois I: Facsimile of a Dismembered Manuscript with Introduction and Descri

Studies of the Warburg Institute

Jean Michel Massing

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Erasmus of Rotterdam's Adages were first published in Venice in 1500. The Greek and Roman proverbs which he recorded and explained in this book met the Renaissance taste for ancient ethical precepts which could be used as a guide to living in the ...

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