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The existence of a early Spanish translation of Erasmus’s Encomium Moriae has been matter of speculation and unsuccessful research for over a century. This volume offers for the first time the edition of a seventeenth-century manuscript discovered at Ets Haim/Livraria Montezinos (Amsterdam) by its editors. They demonstrate that it is not only the first known early modern Spanish translation of Erasmus’s chef-d’œuvre, but a copy of a much earlier version, composed in mid-sixteenth century.
This scholarly edition has been arranged for an easy textual collation with the canonical edition (ASD IV: 3) and translation (CWE 27) of Erasmus’s Praise of Folly and includes an extensive apparatus of footnotes devoted both to this version and to Erasmus’s Moriae Encomium itself.
This scholarly edition has been arranged for an easy textual collation with the canonical edition (ASD IV: 3) and translation (CWE 27) of Erasmus’s Praise of Folly and includes an extensive apparatus of footnotes devoted both to this version and to Erasmus’s Moriae Encomium itself.
Price: $250.00
Pages: 414
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Heterodoxia Iberica
Publication Date:
28 October 2014
ISBN: 9789004231313
Format: Hardcover
“The Encomium Moriae […] is today given an afterlife by the knowledgeable care of Ledo and den Boer in an annotated English edition that brings to a wider academic audience versed both in Spanish and the lingua franca of the twenty-first century the trials and tribulations of a remarkable translation and a forgotten manuscript.” - A. Izquierdo, Sixteenth Century Journal XLVI: 3 (2015), pp. 707–710
"...the edition constitutes an important milestone in the discipline of Erasmian studies in general, and of Hispanic Erasmism in particular.” - J.M. Pérez Fernández, Renaissance Quarterly LXIX:1 (2016), pp. 331–332
"I do not hesitate to say that this impressive edition will open up new lines of research for scholars of Erasmus and early modern Iberian studies and will continue to be an invaluable tool for both teachers and students for years to come.” - K.D. Howard, Erasmus Studies (previously Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook) XXXVI:1 (2016), pp. 73–75
"...the edition constitutes an important milestone in the discipline of Erasmian studies in general, and of Hispanic Erasmism in particular.” - J.M. Pérez Fernández, Renaissance Quarterly LXIX:1 (2016), pp. 331–332
"I do not hesitate to say that this impressive edition will open up new lines of research for scholars of Erasmus and early modern Iberian studies and will continue to be an invaluable tool for both teachers and students for years to come.” - K.D. Howard, Erasmus Studies (previously Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook) XXXVI:1 (2016), pp. 73–75
Harm den Boer, Ph. D (1992) in Spanish Literature is a Full Professor at the Universität Basel. He is author of La literatura sefardí de Amsterdam (Alcalá de Henares, 1996), and a wide-ranging number of articles on Early Modern Iberian Literature.
Jorge Ledo (PhD Centre for Modern Thought, University of Aberdeen, 2009) is at present a Distiguished Researcher at the InTalent Programme (sponsored by Inditex and the Universidade da Coruña). He had previously been an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan (2009–2011) and at the University of Basel (2011–2017). He is the chief editor of Brill's Heterodoxia Iberica Series. He is an expert in some aspects of Renaissance Studies, mainly in the history of Spanish religious and political dissidence during the Renaissance, Erasmus's Studies, History of Poetics in Europe, History of the Ideas on Communication and Dissent in Neo-Latin Culture from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, and the History of Concepts and Emotions.
Jorge Ledo (PhD Centre for Modern Thought, University of Aberdeen, 2009) is at present a Distiguished Researcher at the InTalent Programme (sponsored by Inditex and the Universidade da Coruña). He had previously been an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan (2009–2011) and at the University of Basel (2011–2017). He is the chief editor of Brill's Heterodoxia Iberica Series. He is an expert in some aspects of Renaissance Studies, mainly in the history of Spanish religious and political dissidence during the Renaissance, Erasmus's Studies, History of Poetics in Europe, History of the Ideas on Communication and Dissent in Neo-Latin Culture from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries, and the History of Concepts and Emotions.