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 ...

The presidency of Donald Trump, nearly a year old, has revived a political debate that began in earnest in sixteenth-century Europe: does a nation require leaders of good moral character in order ...

The Praise Of Folly And Footnote 124. Mar. 27, 2016 1:47 PM ET NUS, HLF 26 Comments. William Keep. 261 Followers. Follow. ... No one understood this better than Desiderius Erasmus, ...