In Praise of Folly by Erasmus Summary
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Erasmus's satirical masterpiece, where Folly herself mocks human folly and religious corruption. With 24,000 copies in its first run, this Renaissance bombshell helped spark the Protestant Reformation. What sacred cow would this witty intellectual skewer in today's world?
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When the Fool Speaks Truth
Picture a jester stepping onto a stage in 1511, bells jingling, ready to deliver the most dangerous speech of the Renaissance. But this fool isn't just any entertainer-she's Folly herself, come to praise her own virtues before a European audience hungry for change. Within weeks, "In Praise of Folly" sold thousands of copies, an unprecedented success that would help ignite the Protestant Reformation. Written in just seven days while Erasmus recovered from illness at Thomas More's home, this slim volume became so controversial the Catholic Church banned it, yet so beloved that Benjamin Franklin quoted it regularly centuries later. What made a satirical monologue by the personification of foolishness so explosively influential? Because sometimes truth arrives not through solemn philosophy but through laughter-and sometimes the wisest voice in the room belongs to the one wearing the cap and bells.
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