Plutus and Youth, raised in the Fortunate Islands, and nursed by two figures she counts among her attendants, Drunkenness and Ignorance.
Included in this work is the mention of a scholar that would argue whenever "someone tried to make a conjunction out of a word he labeled an adverb", displaying the futility of scholarly work. This work references Plato's cave allegory in stating that both the man that sees the sun and those that stay before the fire are equally content, as is a man who imagines his wife is Venus even if she is ugly. It calls one of Ulysses's men wise for agreeing to remain a swine, and states that Bacchus and Cupid are happier than Vulcan thanks to the title figure's powers. Flattery is thought of quite highly by the title figure, who was born to (*) Plutus and Youth, raised in the Fortunate Islands, and nursed by two figures she counts among her attendants, Drunkenness and Ignorance. Hans Holbein the Younger notably illustrated, for 10 points, what satirical religious tract dedicated to Sir Thomas More, the best known work of Desiderius Erasmus.
Included in this work is the mention of a scholar that would argue whenever "someone tried to make a conjunction out of a word he labeled an adverb", displaying the futility of scholarly work.
In Praise of Folly [accept The Praise of Folly; accept Moriae Encomium]