Erasmus - Colloquia Nunc Emendatiora - 1636

Des. Erasmus Roterod. Colloquia Nunc Emendatiora [Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus（鹿特丹人）- Colloquies，现已更正/修订].

Lvgd. Batavorvm: ex officina Elzeviriana
[莱顿，荷兰：埃尔齐维尔印刷所]。Anno 1636（第一版埃尔齐维尔印刷）。

这是一本极具影响力却颇难以归类的著作，由传说中的印刷所印制。首次出版于1524年的《谈话集》共63段对话，原为伊拉斯谟的学生所写，话题各异且相互交错，但这些雅致的沉思很快广为人知，因为它们涵盖了当时重要思想家所关心的主题。其影响力如此深远，若说它们帮助推动了宗教改革也并不过分。尽管难以精确分类，一般可以将其归入：揭露仪式性谬误、抨击教会腐败、审视民间欺骗、哀叹当代个人罪恶、为 laymen 提供实用建议，以及对有趣话题的杂谈等。具体来说，文本涉及诸如朝圣价值、独身、以及周五及其他法定日禁肉等具争议的话题。伊拉斯谟的《谈话集》常被埃尔齐维尔一家出版，法文版曾发行过一次，拉丁文总共发行九次。该文本一直在学校教育中采用，直至18世纪。

Condition: Good
Vellum cover. Spine with author and title written at the top. External boards are slightly worn but in very good condition. Inner hinges are very good, a little cracked, but pages are tightly held at gutters. A latin inscription in miniscule handwriting is on the inside of the front cover. Some small tears on the bottom of the first few pages including the title page. The middle of the title page has possibly a signature of a former owner and at the bottom of the title page has a handwritten Latin text. A number of the pages includes notes in the margins and some words/sentences have been underlined. No scattered foxing. General browning of the pages. (Please see pictures). Overall in GOOD CONDITION for its age.

Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus; 28 October c. 1466 – 12 July 1536), commonly known in English as Erasmus of Rotterdam or simply Erasmus, was a Dutch Christian humanist, Catholic priest and theologian, educationalist, satirist, and philosopher. Through his works, he is considered one of the most influential thinkers of the Northern Renaissance and one of the major figures of Dutch and Western culture. Erasmus was an important figure in classical scholarship who wrote in a spontaneous, copious and natural Latin style. As a Catholic priest developing humanist techniques for working on texts, he prepared pioneering new Latin and Greek scholarly editions of the New Testament and of the Church Fathers, with annotations and commentary that were immediately and vitally influential in both the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Reformation. He also wrote On Free Will, The Praise of Folly, The Complaint of Peace, Handbook of a Christian Knight, On Civility in Children, Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style and many other popular and pedagogical works. Erasmus lived against the backdrop of the growing European religious reformations. He developed a biblical humanistic theology in which he advocated the religious and civil necessity both of peaceable concord and of pastoral tolerance on matters of indifference. He remained a member of the Catholic Church all his life, remaining committed to reforming the church from within. He promoted what he understood as the traditional doctrine of synergism, which some prominent reformers such as Martin Luther and John Calvin rejected in favour of the doctrine of monergism. His influential middle-road approach disappointed, and even angered, partisans in both camps.