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Folie et déraison à la Renaissance : colloque international tenu en novembre 1973 sous les auspices de la Fédération internationale des instituts et sociétés pour l'étude de la Renaissance.
Date: [1976], ©1976- Pictures
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A drunken Bacchus cavorts atop the globe, accompanied by Fortune; to his right physicians and quacks fight for legitimacy; to his left the scales held by a blindfold Justice are tipped by a lawyer's money: an allegory of the world of justice and health overturned into one of chance and greed. Coloured etching by Daniël Veelwaard I after J. Smies, 1809.
Smies, Jacob, 1764-1833.Date: 1809Reference: 17675i- Pictures
A chariot driven by Folly and pulled by speculative trading companies displays a figure of Fortune corrupting honest trade. Etching by B. Picart, ca. 1720.
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733.Date: [1720?]Reference: 812283iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.- Pictures
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A man foolishly trying to treat his own illnesses by imitating a physician. Colour lithograph by C. E.(?), 1931.
E. C.Date: 1931Reference: 537097i- Books
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The praise of folly. Translated from the best Latin edition of Erasmus, by W. Kennet, late lord bishop of Peterborough. Illustrated with fifty curious cuts, by the celebrated Hans Holbeine. To which is prefixed, the author's epistle to Sir Thomas More. And the life of the author, by Thomas Brown.
Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536.Date: [1785?]- Books
Encomium moriae, sive declamatio, in laudem stulticiae / [Desiderius Erasmus].
Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536.Date: 1622- Books
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The praise of folly. Made English from the Latin of Erasmus. By W. Kennet, of S. Edm. Hall, Oxon. late Lord Bishop of Peterborough. Adorn'd with forty-eight copper-plates, including the Effigies of Erasmus and Sir Thomas More. All neatly engraved from the designs of the celebrated Hans Holbeine. To which is prefix'd, a preface by the translator
Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536.Date: 1740- Books
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oge de la folie d'asme / traduit par Victor Develay et accompagndes dessins de Hans Holbein.
Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536.Date: 1876- Pictures
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A credulous congregation listening to a sermon by a fiery preacher. Engraving by T. Cook, 1798, after W. Hogarth.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: 1 October 1798Reference: 12090i- Books
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Wit against wisdom: or, the praise of folly. Made English from the Latin of Erasmus. By an eminent hand. Adorn'd with great variety of sculptures, design'd by the celebrated Hans Holbeine.
Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536.Date: MDCCXXII. [1722]- Pictures
An aged winged figure of Time with his scythe stands before a table on which stands a two-headed clerical figure. Engraving.
Date: [1763?]Reference: 579100i- Pictures
A family stand before a seated man handling money at a table; on the left a pleading man hoisted on a rope from a building as 3 men negotiate below him in a yard.
Weiditz, Hans, approximately 1495-approximately 1536Date: [1531]Reference: 3334563i