Collected Works of Erasmus: Letters 1535 to 1657 : January-December 1525: 11 - Rilegato

Erasmus, Desiderius

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ISBN 10: 0802005365 ISBN 13: 9780802005366

Casa editrice: Univ of Toronto Pr, 1994

Riassunto

The Peasant's War in Germany and his own ill-health combined to keep Erasmus confined to the city of Basel during 1525, but he was still able to maintain an active correspondence spanning all of Europe. In the preceding year, he had published De libero artbitrio/Freedom of the Will, his first open attack on the teachings of Martin Luther. Despite this public defence of Catholic doctrine, Erasmus was continually forced in his correspondence to reply to open or veiled attacks by Catholic critics.

Erasmus directly addressed one of his critics, No+l BTda, of the Paris theological faculty, in the spring of 1525. BTda was preparing analyses of Erasmus' publications that would eventually form the basis for a formal condemnation. Erasmus' correspondence with BTda, intended to head off such a condemnation, continued past 1525 and became increasingly hostile in tone. That same year, Erasmus also followed up reports that an influential Italian humanist, Alberta Pio, Prince of Carpi, was circulating at the papal curia a manuscript accusing Erasmus of being the major source of Luther's errors. Again, he directly addressed his opponent in order to prove his orthodoxy and to urge (in vain) that no such attack be published. In both cases, however, despite his break with Luther and his public and private opposition to the Protestant leader Oecolampadius in Basel, he was unsuccessful in turning aside the hostility of his Catholic critics.

Volume 11 of the Collected Works of Erasmus series.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

ALEXANDER DALZEL is Professor Emeritus, Trinity College, University of Toronto. CHARLES G. NAUERT is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Missouri-Columbia. His publications have dealt with various aspects of Renaissance humansim, mainly north of the Alps.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Toronto Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0802005365
• ISBN 13: 9780802005366
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 476