The Correspondence of Erasmus: Letters 1252-1355 (1522-1523) PDF
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COLLECTED WORKS OF ERASMUS VOLUME 9 Erasmus Hans Holbein the Younger, 1523 Offentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, Kunstmuseum THE CORRESPONDENCE OF ERASMUS LETTERS 1252 TO 1355 1522 TO 1523 translated by R.A.B. Mynors annotated by James M. Estes University of Toronto Press Toronto / Buffalo / London The research and publication costs of the Collected Works of Erasmus are supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. The publication costs are also assisted by University of Toronto Press. www.utppublishing.com ©University of Toronto Press 1989 Toronto / Buffalo / London Printed in Canada ISBN 0-8020-2604-4 Printed on acid-free paper Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536. [Works] Collected works of Erasmus Includes index. Partial contents: v. 9. the correspondence of Erasmus: letters 1252 to 1355, 1522 to 1523 / translated by R. A.B. Mynors; annotated by James M. Estes. ISBN 0-8020-2604-4 (v. 9) 1. Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536. I. Title. PA8500 1974 876'.04 C74-6326-X rev Collected Works of Erasmus The aim of the Collected Works of Erasmus is to make available an accurate, readable English text of Erasmus' correspondence and his other principal writings. The edition is planned and directed by an Editorial Board, an Executive Committee, and an Advisory Committee. EDITORIAL BOARD Alexander Dalzell, University of Toronto James M. Estes, University of Toronto Charles Fantazzi, University of Windsor Anthony T. Grafton, Princeton University Paul F. Grendler, University of Toronto James K. McConica, University of Toronto, Chairman Erika Rummel, University of Toronto, Executive Assistant Robert D. Sider, Dickinson College J.K. Sowards, Wichita State University G.M. Story, Memorial University of Newfoundland Craig R. Thompson, University of Pennsylvania EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Harald Bohne, University of Toronto Press Alexander Dalzell, University of Toronto James M. Estes, University of Toronto Charles Fantazzi, University of Windsor Anthony T. Grafton, Princeton University Paul F. Grendler, University of Toronto James K. McConica, University of Toronto Ian Montagnes, University of Toronto Press R.J. Schoeck, Universität Trier R.M. Schoeffel, University of Toronto Press, Chairman Robert D. Sider, Dickinson College J.K. Sowards, Wichita State University G.M. Story, Memorial University of Newfoundland Craig R. Thompson, University of Pennsylvania Prudence Tracy, University of Toronto Press ADVISORY COMMITTEE Danilo Aguzzi-Barbagli, University of British Columbia Maria Cytowska, University of Warsaw O.B. Hardison jr, Georgetown University Otto Herding, Universität Freiburg Jozef IJsewijn, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Robert M. Kingdon, University of Wisconsin Paul Oskar Kristeller, Columbia University Maurice Lebel, Université Laval Jean-Claude Margolin, Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance de Tours Bruce M. Metzger, Princeton Theological Seminary Clarence H. Miller, St Louis University Heiko A. Oberman, University of Arizona John Rowlands, British Library J.S.G. Simmons, Oxford University John Tedeschi, University of Wisconsin J. Trapman, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen J.B. Trapp, Warburg Institute Contents Illustrations viii Preface ix Map showing the principal places mentioned in volume 9 xix LETTERS 1252 TO 1355 1 Table of Correspondents 460 Works Frequently Cited 463 Short-Title Forms for Erasmus' Works 466 Index 471 Illustrations Erasmus frontispiece Erasmus Paraphrasis in Mattheum title-page 7 Jakob Ziegler 25 Autograph letter from Willibald Pirckheimer to Erasmus, Ep 1265 42 Letter from Erasmus to Duke George of Saxony, Ep 1283 88 Huldrych Zwingli 184 Pope Adrian vi 204 Erasmus Paraphrasis in loannem title-page 230 Erasmus' edition of the works of St Hilary of Poitiers, dedicatory preface 244 Erasmus Catalogus lucubrationum title-page 292 Diego Lopez Zuniga Erasmi Roterodami blasphemiae et impietates title-page 330 The hands of Erasmus 396 Preface When Erasmus wrote the first letter in this volume, which covers the period January 1522-March 1523, he was in the third month of a sojourn in Basel that was to last, with only brief interruptions, until April 1529. He had decided to leave Louvain and go to Basel in part because he was weary of controversy with the Louvain theologians, in part because he wanted to see the annotations to his third edition of the New Testament through Froben's press, and most of all because he feared that pressure from the imperial court, which had been back in the Netherlands since May 1521, would force him to take a public stand against Luther.1 His original intention had apparently been to return to Brabant in the spring of 1522.2 But it was difficult for him to leave Basel, a city with important attractions and advantages. It contained many good friends, the legacy of his earlier stay there in 1514-16. It was not involved in the war between Charles v and Francis I that had broken out in 1521. Most of all, in religious matters it had a liberal-reformist atmosphere congenial to a man of Erasmus' views and was still years away from decisive adherence to the Reformation. On the other hand, the local wine had an adverse effect on Erasmus' health,3 and the summer of 1522 saw a prolonged uproar caused by the antics of some adherents of the Reformation.4 So Erasmus was for a time determined to go elsewhere. But an attempted trip to Rome in the autumn had to be aborted because of a bad attack of the stone at Constance and also because of reports of the dangers of the journey.5 Similarly, plans to migrate to France early in 1523 were abandoned partly because Erasmus' health improved with the aid of some imported Burgundy wine but mostly because his hopes for an early 1 See Epp 1242 introduction, 1302:11-16, 1342:57, 105-10, and Allen Ep 2792:13-23. 2 Ep 1257:12 3 Ep 1311:22, 34-5 4 See Ep 1293 n8. 5 Ep 1319:11-16
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