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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.
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.
Ship of Fools (painted c. 1490–1500) is a painting by the Early Netherlandish artist Hieronymus Bosch, now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. Camille Benoit donated it in 1918. The Louvre restored it in 2015. The surviving painting is a fragment of a triptych that was cut into several parts.
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.
Alexander Barclay's Ship of Fools (1509) is a free imitation into early Tudor period English of the German poem, and a Latin version by Jakob Locher (1497) [20] was hardly less popular than the original. Cock Lorell's Bote (printed by Wynkyn de Worde, c. 1510) was a shorter imitation of the 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.