The Follies

July 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment

In 1511 Erasmus wrote a wonderful little treatise called Encomium Morae, literally “Praise of Folly” but also a pun on the name of his friend, St. Thomas More (in medieval Latin, the final -ae of the word morae would have been pronounced the same way the final -e in the name “More” would have been [...]