Collected Works of Erasmus: ColloquiesErasmus' 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. Volumes 39 and 40 of the Collected Works of Erasmus series – Two-volume set. |
Contents
The Profane Feast Convivium profanum 1518 1522 | |
The Epithalamium of Pieter Gillis Epithalamium Petri Aegidii 1524 | |
The Cheating HorseDealer Hippoplanus 1524 | |
The Fabulous Feast Convivium fabulosum 1524 | |
A Pilgrimage for Religions Sake Peregrinatio religionis ergo 1526 | |
A Feast of Many Courses Things and Names De rebus ac vocabulis 1527 | |
A Meeting of the Philological Society Synodus grammaticorum 1529 | |
A Marriage in Name Only or The Unequal Match sive Coniugium | |
The Imposture Impostura 1529 | |
A Short Rule for Copiousness Brevis de copia praeceptio 1518 | |
The Girl with No Interest in Marriage Virgo 1523 | |
The Soldier and the Carthusian Militis et Cartusiani 1523 | |
The Liar and the Man of Honour Pseudochei | |
The Shipwreck Naufragium 1523 | |
The Young Man and the Harlot Adolescentis et scorti 1523 | |
An Examination concerning the Faith Inquisitio defide 1524 | |
The Old Mens Chat or The Carriage 1524 | |
Knucklebones or The Game of Tali sive Talorum lusus 1529 | |
The Sober Feast 1529 | |
PennyPinching Opulentia sordida 1531 | |
The Seraphic Funeral Exequiae seraphicae 1531 | |
A Problem Problema 1533 | |
The Epicurean Epicureus 1533 | |
The Usefulness of the ColloquiesDe utilitate Colloquiorum 1526 1529 | |
Erasmus and Erasmius | |