TY - BOOK ID - 90138 TI - Colloquies AU - Erasmus, Desiderius AU - Thompson, Craig R. PY - 1997 VL - 39-40 SN - 0802058191 1442623721 1442659963 1442655372 9780802058195 9781442623729 PB - Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, DB - UniCat KW - Neo-Latin literature KW - Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern) KW - Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) KW - Imaginary conversations. KW - Translations into English. KW - -Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) KW - Imaginary conversations KW - Conversation, Imaginal KW - Conversation, Imaginary KW - Dialogues, Imaginal KW - Imaginal dialogues KW - Conversation KW - Dialogues KW - Latin didactic literature, Medieval and modern KW - Latin literature, Medieval and modern KW - Latin dialogues, Medieval and modern KW - Translations into English KW - Erasmus, Desiderius KW - Dialogues, Latin (Medieval and modern). KW - 873.4 ERASMUS ROTERODAMUS, DESIDERIUS <01> KW - 873.4 ERASMUS ROTERODAMUS, DESIDERIUS <01> Humanistisch Latijnse literatuur--Bibliografieën. Catalogi--ERASMUS ROTERODAMUS, DESIDERIUS KW - Humanistisch Latijnse literatuur--Bibliografieën. Catalogi--ERASMUS ROTERODAMUS, DESIDERIUS KW - Authors, Latin (Medieval and modern) KW - Auteurs latins KW - Vie intellectuelle KW - Humanists KW - Humanistes KW - Traductions anglaises. KW - Sources. KW - Erasmus, Desiderius, KW - Érasme, KW - Netherlands KW - Intellectual life UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:90138 AB - Erasmus' Familiar Colloquies grew from a small collection of phrases, sentences, and snatches of dialogue written in Paris about 1497 to help his private pupils improve their command of Latin. Twenty years later the material was published by Johann Froben (Basel 1518). It was an immediate success and was reprinted thirty times in the next four years. For the edition of March 1522 Erasmus began to add fully developed dialogues, and a book designed to improve boys' use of Latin (and their deportment) soon became a work of literature for adults, although it retained traces of its original purposes. The final Froben edition (March, 1533) had about sixty parts, most of them dialogues.It was in the last form that the Colloquies were read and enjoyed for four centuries. For modern readers it is one of the best introductions to European society of the Renaissance and Reformation periods, with lively descriptions of daily life and provocative discussions of political, religious, social, and literary topics, presented with Erasmus's characteristic wit and verve. Each colloquy has its own introduction and full explanatory, historical, and biographical notes. ER -