The American edition of Stefan Zweig’s biography of Erasmus, which Viking will publish in November, will contain reproductions of four of the famous portraits of Erasmus done by his contemporaries, ...
Stefan Zweig was probably the world’s most famous living Austrian before the rise of Adolf Hitler. Among the most widely translated authors of the 1920s and ’30s, Zweig specialized in novellas of ...
On this day in 1536, Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam died at Basel. He was 69 years old. This year is the 500th anniversary of the printing of The Praise of Folly, the famous essay addressed to Thomas ...
Soon after his 70th birthday, Charles Darwin sat down to compose a Life of his grandfather Erasmus, poet and sage of 18th-century Lichfield, brilliant physician, mechanical inventor, incorrigible ...
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