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Also known as Colloquies, Colloquia familiaria

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Book · Open Library

Author
Arthur Edward Barker
First published
1978
Editions
2
Subjects
Renaissance, English literature, History and criticism

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Instance of
literary work
Author
Erasmus
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Colloquios de Erasmo 1532.jpg
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publication date
1518-00-00
language of work or name
renaissance Latin
copyright status
public domain
native label
Colloquia familiaria
title
Colloquia familiaria
form of creative work
prose
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Encyclopedic overview

12 sections
Contents
  • Overview
  • Summaries
  • ''Naufragium'' (Shipwreck)
  • Amicitia (Friendship)
  • ''Opulentia sordida'' (The wealthy miser)
  • ''The Young Man and the Harlot''
  • ''Peregrinatio religionis ergo'' (A religious pilgrimage)
  • ''Inquisitio de fide'' (Inquisition of faith)
  • ''Epicureus'' (The Epicurean)
  • Others
  • Editions and translations
  • References

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Colloquies (Latin title Colloquia familiaria) is one of the many works of the "Prince of Christian Humanists", Desiderius Erasmus. First published in 1518 as Latin dialogues for schoolboy exercises, the work expanded over the following decades with witty but more serious and controversial content. Among other things, the pages "...held up contemporary religious practices for examination in a more serious but still pervasively ironic tone".

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