COLLATING ERASMUS WITH BAPTISTA MANTUANUS ERASMUS, Desiderius.
Collectanea adagiorum.
Intensely annotated copy of a lifetime edition of Erasmus’ repository of Greek and Latin proverbs. The first version of the Adagia, containing about eight hundred maxims, had been published in 1500. Erasmus continued to add to his thesaurus for over thirty years, the success of this enterprise evident from the proliferation of editions, abridgements and translations.
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