After early studies under Hegius of Deventer, this thinker was saved from a life spent at the monastery of Emmaus when the Bishop of Cambrai chose him as his personal secretary, and he soon published a collection of proverbs known as the "Adagia".
After early studies under Hegius of Deventer, this thinker was saved from a life spent at the monastery of Emmaus when the Bishop of Cambrai chose him as his personal secretary, and he soon published a collection of proverbs known as the "Adagia". Despite his opposition to the leaders of the Reformation, he greatly aided its cause with his "Colloquia" and with his best-known work, a vicious satire attacking the abuses and follishness of the various classes of society, especially the Church. FTP, who was this Dutch humanist, author of "The Praise of Folly"?
After early studies under Hegius of Deventer, this thinker was saved from a life spent at the monastery of Emmaus when the Bishop of Cambrai chose him as his personal secretary, and he soon published a collection of proverbs known as the "Adagia".
Desiderius Erasmus