Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (
2016)
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Desiderius Erasmus Desiderius Erasmus was one of the leading activists and thinkers of the European Renaissance. His main activity was to write letters to the leading statesmen, humanists, printers, and theologians of the first three and a half decades of the sixteenth century. Erasmus was an indefatigable correspondent, controversialist, self-publicist, satirist, translator, commentator, editor, … Continue reading Erasmus, Desiderius →