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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.
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: 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 ...
Brant first attracted attention in humanistic circles by his Neo-Latin poetry but, realising that this gave him only a limited audience, he began translating his own work and the Latin poems of others into German, publishing them through the press of his friend Johann Bergmann von Olpe [], from which appeared his best known German work, the satirical Das Narrenschiff (Ship of Fools, 1494), the ...
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. This image is attributed to Albrecht Dürer.
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. This image is attributed to Albrecht Dürer.
James Bramston (1694–1743, England) – satirical poet Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343–1400, England) – The Canterbury Tales Sebastian Brant (also Brandt) (1458 – 1521, Strasbourg) – Das Narrenschiff (Ship of Fools)
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. This image is attributed to Albrecht Dürer.