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"Introduction
This paper is concerned with Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus. Johan Huizinga considered it as the one composition for which Erasmus was destined to be immortal, and apparently he was right, for this work is the one for which Erasmus is the most noted in the twentieth century. The idea for this book came to him in 1509, while he was traveling across the Alps on the way from Italy to England. Erasmus composed it in a short time while he was staying at the residence of Sir Thomas More, to whom it is dedicated, with a playful suggestion of appropriateness because moros means "fool."


The fools of Erasmus were those pilloried by the medieval preachers and moralists such as Geiler of Keyersburg and Sebastian Brand, who gathered in his Ship of Fools all those whom..."

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