Moriae Encomium or The Praise of Folly (The Heritage Press)

xv, 125 pp. In writing Encomium Moriae, Erasmus wrote a satire. This satire takes the form of an oration by the goddess Folly, who is represented as declaiming from a pulpit upon the delights which await those who follow in her path. No class in the Renaissance world is spared in her harangue; kings, courtiers, authors, scholars, priests, and bishops-- all conditions of men feel the lash of her tongue.