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The ship of fools, 1549 German woodcut illustration for Brant's book. Benjamin Jowett's 1871 translation recounts the story as follows: . Imagine then a fleet or a ship in which there is a captain who is taller and stronger than any of the crew, but he is a little deaf and has a similar infirmity in sight, and his knowledge of navigation is not much better.
English: Woodcut image from the Shyp Of Foles Of The Worlde, an English translation by Alexander Barclay of Das Narrenschiff by Sebastian Brant. Most of the images in the 1509 Ship of Fools are original to the 1494 Das Narrenschiff.
English: Woodcut image from the Shyp Of Foles Of The Worlde, an English translation by Alexander Barclay of Das Narrenschiff by Sebastian Brant. Most of the images in the 1509 Ship of Fools are original to the 1494 Das Narrenschiff.
English: Woodcut image from the Shyp Of Foles Of The Worlde, an English translation by Alexander Barclay of Das Narrenschiff by Sebastian Brant. Most of the images in the 1509 Ship of Fools are original to the 1494 Das Narrenschiff.
The Fool's Cap Map of the World is an artistic presentation of a world map created by an unknown artist sometime between 1580 and 1590 CE. The engraving takes the form of a court jester with the face replaced by cordiform (heart-shaped or leaf-shaped) world map based on the designs of cartographers such as Oronce Finé , Gerardus Mercator , and ...
English: Das Narrenschiff (Ship of fools) by the Basel lawyer Sebastian Brant (1458–1521) was one of the first lavishly illustrated works to be printed in the German language in the 15th century and one of the most popular. Following the first edition, which was printed in 1494 by Brant’s old university friend Johann Bergmann, Brant’s ...
English: Woodcut image from the Shyp Of Foles Of The Worlde, an English translation by Alexander Barclay of Das Narrenschiff by Sebastian Brant. Most of the images in the 1509 Ship of Fools are original to the 1494 Das Narrenschiff.
Ship of Fools (Modern German: Das Narrenschiff; Latin: Stultifera Navis; original medieval German title: Daß Narrenschyff ad Narragoniam) is a satirical allegory in German verse published in 1494 in Basel, Switzerland, by the humanist and theologian Sebastian Brant.