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In a novel, the father of this writer befriends a hermit in a cave near Gouda, later becoming that city's vicar. The title character of a dialogue by this author justifies pursuing wealth because Aristotle ordered the goods of fortune before the goods of the mind and is mocked by being given the title Pestiferous Maximus. Margaret Brandt and Gerard Eliassoen are revealed to have been the parents of this man in Charles (*) Reade's novel The Cloister and the Hearth. A dialogue by this author concerns a companion of Genius who is prevented from entering a locked door by Saint Peter. He wrote an essay about an offspring of Plutus and Freshness whose name is sometimes translated to refer to his friend and collaborator, Thomas More. For 10 points, name this author of Julius Exclusus, a Dutch humanist who also wrote In Praise of Folly.
In a novel, the father of this writer befriends a hermit in a cave near Gouda, later becoming that city's vicar.
Desiderius Erasmus