II-7 Ordinis secundi tomus septimus: Adagiorum chilias quarta (pars prior) (Opera Omnia Desiderii Erasmi – Erasmus, Opera Omnia) - Hardcover

9780444828347: II-7 Ordinis secundi tomus septimus: Adagiorum chilias quarta (pars prior) (Opera Omnia Desiderii Erasmi – Erasmus, Opera Omnia)

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ISBN 10: 0444828346 ISBN 13: 9780444828347

Publisher: Elsevier, 1999

The seventh volume of the Adagia (Proverbs) of the Amsterdam edition of the Latin texts of Erasmus gives an introduction in French and a critical edition of the Latin text of the first half of the fourth thousand Adages. The text is accompanied by notes in French that trace Erasmus’ sources and give linguistic, historical, philological and, where appropriate, theological background information which elucidates the text and Erasmus’ way of working.

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Review

This edition of Erasmus is a splendid example of the care, thoroughness, and exactitude constantly exhibited in the Erasmi Opera Omnia published under the supervision of the Huygens Instituut in The Hague. Charles Fantazzi, East Carolina University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 66, No. 3, Fall 2013, p. 954."

''This edition of Erasmus is a splendid example of the care, thoroughness, and exactitude constantly exhibited in the Erasmi Opera Omnia published under the supervision of the Huygens Instituut in The Hague.'' Charles Fantazzi, East Carolina University. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 66, No. 3, Fall 2013, p. 954.

About the Author

Tineke L. ter Meer was trained as a scholar in Dutch literature at VU University Amsterdam, and achieved her doctorate with a study of the epigrams of Constantijn Huygens. She also edited his early Latin poems (2004). Currently, she assists in the translation of Erasmus' correspondence into Dutch.

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