Erasmi Opera Omnia : Volume II-8 (Vol 2) [Hardcover]

Desiderius Erasmus (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 1997 | ISBN-10: 0444821503 | ISBN-13: 978-0444821508

This is volume two (part eight) of the complete works of Erasmus. Like the other volumes, it contains an historical introduction and is accompanied by two sets of notes - an apparatus criticus and a commentary, in which Erasmus's sources are identified and references to people and events explained.

Editorial Reviews

Review

... this new volume inaugurates a new series within the giant enterprise: the ordo quartus, assigned to works of moral instruction ... The moral precepts expounded in the present volume are timeless by definition ... the wealth of classical quotation and parabolae does not prevent this volume from fully exhibiting some qualities which are now considered typically Erasmian. The Panegyricus ad Philippum, for instance, poses the dilemma of acceptable limits to flattery....

In the present volume both Panegyricus ad Philippum and the Institutio principis Christiani have been edited by Otto Herding in masterly fashion. His critical presentation of the text is impeccable and accompanied by a carefully balanced selection of historical notes ... Similarly Herding's introduction to each of the two treatises is like an assortment of keys, opening up a variety of insights into Erasmus' text, adding precise accentuations to some ongoing discussions but stopping well short of a full-fledged and necessarily subjective analysis of the two works ...the Lingua can now be studied in a critical edition, for it is a work of considerable interest which deserves far greater attention than it has received until now. -- Renaissance Quarterly --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 394 pages
• Publisher: North-Holland (December 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0444821503
• ISBN-13: 978-0444821508
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
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