Moria de Erasmo Roterodamoa critical edition of the early modern Spanish translation of Erasmus's Encomium Moriae
- Erasmus, Desiderius
- Ledo, Jorge ed. lit.
- Boer, Harm den ed. lit.
Publisher: Brill
ISBN: 978-90-04-23131-3
Year of publication: 2014
Type: Book
Abstract
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'oeuvre, 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.