Can I read The Correspondence of Erasmus : Letters 446 to 593, Volume 4 on EtoBox?

The Correspondence of Erasmus : Letters 446 to 593, Volume 4 by Desiderius Erasmus, R. A. B. Mynors, Eleanor M. Thomson, P. G. Bietenholz is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Correspondence of Erasmus : Letters 446 to 593, Volume 4 about?

<P>The year that began in August 1515 was the <EM>annus mirabilis</EM> of Erasmus' career, the year, notably of the epistles of St Jerome and the first edition of his New Testament. In the months following, covered in this volume of the CWE, from August 1516 to June 1517, the active exchange of letters that began with volume 3 continued, giving a vivid impression of the impact of Erasmus' great achievement upon his contemporaries. In his own words, "The New Testament has made me friends everywhere."</P> <P>To Erasmus, the most important event of these months was intensely private, the dispensation granted by Leo X allowing him to escape permanently from the restraints of his religious community, to earn his living with the freedom of a secular priest. In elucidating the complex circumstances surrounding this crucial development in Erasmus' career, Dr McConica advances a new view of the obscure circumstances surrounding Erasmus' illegitimacy. We are also given Erasmus' thinly veiled account of his boyhood in the "Letter to Grunnius," and, in an Appendix, the closely related account in the <EM>Compendium vitae</EM>, a vital if controversial document for our knowledge of his early lif

Who reads The Correspondence of Erasmus : Letters 446 to 593, Volume 4?

Author

Desiderius Erasmus, R. A. B. Mynors, Eleanor M. Thomson, P. G. Bietenholz

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Published

1977

Language

EN

ISBN

9780802053664

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Philosophy, History

Updated

2026-03-25