xxvii, 344 pp. Translated into English from the original German by William Gillis, with an introduction, notes, and appendix by Patricia Ingle Gillis. Illustrated with the original woodcuts. A collection of verse originally published in Basel, Switzerland in 1494 as Das Narrenschiff. It is the best literary example of the ship of fools trope, an allegory intended to represent the problems of governance prevailing in a political system not based on expert knowledge.
