The goddess Folly delivers a mock-oration praising human foolishness and skewering the powerful and the pious. Erasmus's witty humanist satire.
Books mentioned in The Praise of Folly (2)
Gesta Romanorum: “And here they bring in some foolish insipid fable out of _Speculum Historiale_ or _Gesta Romanorum_ and expound it allegorically, tropologically, and anagogically.”
Gryllus by Plutarch: “…baldness; Lucian, the fly and flattery; when Seneca made such sport with Claudius' canonizations; Plutarch, with his dialogue between Ulysses and Gryllus; Lucian and Apuleius, with the ass; and some other, I know not who, with the hog that made his last will and testament, of which also even…”
Books that mention The Praise of Folly (1)
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas by Machado de Assis: “Erasmus, who wrote some good things in his In Praise of Folly, called attention to the complacency...”