Utopia
Thomas More · Renaissance · Political fiction
Renaissance · Satire
The Praise of Folly
by Desiderius Erasmus. A personified Folly celebrates herself while exposing pretension among scholars, rulers, and churchmen.
- Date
- 1509–1511
- Origin
- Netherlands
- Era
- Renaissance
- Genre
- Satire
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Length
- Medium
- Collection
- The Western Canon
Subjects and themes
Why it matters
A personified Folly celebrates herself while exposing pretension among scholars, rulers, and churchmen.
This work is included in the collection on the basis of harvard. Its cataloged influence level is 4 out of 5.
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