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Early Dutch Jesuit scholar Peter Canisius, who produced several works superseding Erasmus', [note 41] is known to have read, or used phrases from, Erasmus' New Testament (including the Annotations and Notes) and perhaps the Paraphrases, his Jerome biography and complete works, the Adages, the Copia, and the Colloquies: [note 42] Canisius ...
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Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus (/ ˌ d ɛ z ɪ ˈ d ɪər i ə s ɪ ˈ r æ z m ə s / DEZ-i-DEER-ee-əs irr-AZ-məs; Dutch: [ˌdeːziˈdeːrijʏs eːˈrɑsmʏs]; 28 October c. 1466 – 12 July 1536), commonly known in English as Erasmus of Rotterdam or simply Erasmus, was a Dutch Christian humanist, Catholic priest and theologian, educationalist, satirist, and philosopher.
Hans Holbein's witty marginal drawing of Folly (1515), in a copy owned by Erasmus himself. The Praise of Folly begins with a satirical learned encomium, in which Folly praises herself, in the manner of the Greek satirist Lucian (2nd century AD), whose work Erasmus and Sir Thomas More had recently translated into Latin; Folly swipes at every part of society, from lovers to princes to inventors ...
The Colloquies is a collection of dialogues or skits on a wide variety of subjects.. They began in the late 1490s as informal Latin exercises for Erasmus' own pupils. The first official version, of 1518, was "a collection of formulae and conversational passages."
Erasmus wrote Copia while a professor at the University of Cambridge in 1511. He was teaching Greek , but between courses composed several texts designed to instruct Latin . Copia was one such text, perhaps as an attempt to expand on Quintillian 's rhetorical guide, Institutio Oratoria .
A beautiful antique store owner, Alice Chapman (Alicia Witt), travels to her fiancé's hometown alone to meet her future in-laws for the first time at their Christmas gathering. Her fiancé, successful realtor Will Mitchum (Scott Gibson), tells her he will join them after closing an important business deal.
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