Erasmus of Rotterdam (c.
Its dazzling mixture of fantasy and satire is narrated by a personification of Folly, dressed as a jester, who celebrates youth, pleasure, drunkenness and sexual desire, and goes on to lambast human pretensio.
Praise of Folly, written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, is Erasmus\'s best-known work. 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval pieties in favour of a rich new vision of the individual\'s potential.
Erasmus of Rotterdam (c