Erasmus of Rotterdam#Erasmus
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#Erasmus
Erasmus of Rotterdam · 1466–1536
In the books · 1 chapter
Who this is
“Europe's first printing-press celebrity spent his life refusing to join either army in the great religious war of his age — and was condemned by both, which may be the strongest evidence that he was standing somewhere real.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“Go back to the sources. Corrupt texts make corrupt religion; clean grammar, honest scholarship, and a little laughter can reform the world without burning it down.”
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