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Basel: Froben, 1520. First edition, printed in May. Ignorantiam esse superbiae matrem. Eruditionem contra modestiam parere. [Ignorance is the mother of pride; it is from learning, on the contrary, that modesty is born.] First edition of Antibarbari, Erasmus’ manifesto “defending the arts against the scruples of the barbarians” (Tracy). Erasmus.....  Read More Item Details for Antibarbarorum … liber unus Add to Wish List

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Basel: Froben, 1534. Early Froben edition of a pedagogical work by Erasmus, “On the Writing of letters”, first published in 1522, with a collection of aphorisms or “Parallels” gathered out of Plutarch’s Moralia, Seneca, Lucian, Xenophon, Demosthenes, Aristotle, Pliny, and Theophrastus. An edition was published in Cologne in the same.....  Read More Item Details for Opus de Conscribendis Epistolis ... [Bound with:] Parabolae sive similia Add to Wish List

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