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The colloquies of Erasmus. / Translated by Craig R. Thompson.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating PA8508.E5 T52
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Translations into English.
- Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern).
- Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Translations into English.
- Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern).
- Imaginary conversations.
- Genre:
- Authors' inscriptions (Provenance)
- Physical Description:
- 662 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1965-]
- Contents:
- Colloquies
- Dedicatory letter to John Erasmius Froben
- Rash vows (De votis temere susceptis)
- In pursuit of benefices (De captandis sacerdotiis)
- Military affairs (Militaria)
- The master's bidding (Herilia)
- A lesson in manners (Monitoria paedagogica)
- Sport (De lusu)
- The whole duty of youth (Confabulatio pia)
- Hunting (Venatio)
- Off to school (Euntes in ludum literarium)
- The godly feast (Convivium religiosum)
- A short rule for copiousness (Brevis de copia praeceptio)
- The apotheosis of that incomparable worthy, John Reuchlin (De incomparabili heroe Ioanne Reuchlino in divorum numerum relato)
- Courtship (Proci et puellae)
- The girl with no interest in marriage (Virgo misogamos)
- The repentent girl (Virgo poenitens)
- Marriage (Coniugium)
- The soldier and the Carthusian (Militis et Cartusiani)
- Pseudocheus and Philetymus : the liar and the man of honour (Pseudochei et Philetymi)
- The shipwreck (Naufragium)
- Inns (Diversoria)
- The young man and the harlot (Adolescentis et scorti)
- The poetic feast (Convivium poeticum)
- An examination concerning the faith (Inquisitio de fide)
- The old men's chat, or The carriage (Geroutología, sive Ochama)
- The well-to-do beggars (Ptochoploúsioi)
- The abbot and the learned lady (Abbatis et eruditae)
- The epithalamium of Pieter Gillis (Epithalamium Petri Aegidii)
- Exorcism, or The spectre (Exorcismus, sive Spectrum)
- Alchemy (Alcumistica)
- The cheating horse-dealer (Hippoplanus)
- Beggar talk (Ptochología)
- The fabulous feast (Convivium fabulosum
- The new mother (Puerpera)
- A pilgrimage for religion's sake (Peregrinatio religionis ergo)
- A fish diet (Ichthuophagía)
- The funeral (Funus)
- Echo (Echo)
- A feast of many courses (Poludaitía)
- Things and names (De rebus de vocabulis).
- Notes:
- Bibliographical footnotes.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Gift: Mrs. Malcolm Lloyd; inscribed by Thompson.
- OCLC:
- 5627721
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