<p>This volume is of particular interest because more than half the letters derive from the Deventer Letterβbook, into which Erasmus had his amaneunses copy incoming and outgoing letters, among them many which were truly private rather than composed with a mind to subsequent publication.</p>
The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 446 to 593, Volume 4
β Scribed by Desiderius Erasmus; R.A.B. Mynors; Eleanor M. Thomson
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Year
- 1977
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 463
- Series
- Collected Works of Erasmus; 4
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
In the months following, covered in this volume of the CWE, from August 1516 to June 1517, the active exchange of letters that began with volume 3 continued, giving a vivid impression of the impact of Erasmus' great achievement upon his contemporaries.
β¦ Table of Contents
Contents
Illustrations
Preface
Map showing the principal places mentioned in volume 4
LETTERS 446 TO 593
446 / To Leo X β 477/ To Pieter Gillis
478 / From Andrea Ammonio β 520 / From William Latimer
521 / From Silvestro Gigli β 560 / From Petrus Mosellanus
561 / From Wolfgang Capito β 593 / From John Colet
Compendium vitae Erasmi Roterodami
Table of Correspondents Works Frequently Cited Short Title Forms for Erasmus' Works Index
Table of Correspondents
Works Frequently Cited
Short Title Forms for Erasmus' Works
Index
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
<p>There are one hundred and fiftyβone letters from this period, more than survive from the whole of the first forty years of his life. They range in character from hasty personal notes to extended formal treatises, and they appear with remarkable regularity.</p>
<p>This volume includes Erasmusβs correspondence for the months April 1532 to April 1533.</p>
<p>An exchange of letters between Juan de Vergara and Diego LΓ³pez ZΓΊΓ±iga which bears on the controversy then raging between Erasmus and ZΓΊΓ±iga is included as an appendix to this volume.</p>
<p>This final volume of the Correspondence subseries of the <i>Collected Works of Erasmus</i> includes the letters from Erasmusβ final years.</p>
<p>Many of the letters in this volume, which covers the period August 1530 to March 1531, reflect Erasmus' anxieties over events at the Diet of Augsburg (June-November 1530).</p>