Adages IIi1 to IIvi100 : IIi1 to IIvi100 /
When Erasmus published the Adages, his monumental collection of proverbs, he wrote in the Introduction that 'a knowledge of proverbs contributes to a number of things, but to four especially: philosophy, persuasiveness, grace and charm in speaking, and the understanding of the best authors....
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
[2016]
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| Series: | Collected Works of Erasmus ;
33 |
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| Summary: | When Erasmus published the Adages, his monumental collection of proverbs, he wrote in the Introduction that 'a knowledge of proverbs contributes to a number of things, but to four especially: philosophy, persuasiveness, grace and charm in speaking, and the understanding of the best authors.' This volume contains another 600 of the more than 4000 adages that Erasmus gathered and commented on, sometimes in a few lines and sometimes in full-scale essays. The notes identify the classical sources and indicate how Erasmus' reading and thinking developed over the quarter-century spanned by the eight revisions of the original work. Many of the proverbs cited by Erasmus are still in out common stock of speech |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (479 pages) |
| Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web |
| ISBN: | 9781442670631 |
| Access: | Restricted for use by site license |