“As Peace, am I not praised by both men and gods as the very source and defender of all good things?…Though nothing is more odious to God and harmful to man, yet it is incredible to see the tremendous expenditure of work and effort that intelligent beings put forth in an effort to exchange me for a heap of ruinous evils.” (Erasmus, The Complaint of Peace, 1517, Dolan translation) A few years after Erasmus personified Folly in his most famous work, The Praise of Folly, he went back to … [Read more...] about The Complaint of Peace
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