Table Of ContentCOLLECTED WORKS OF ERASMUS
VOLUME 7
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THE CORRESPONDENCE OF
ERASMUS
LETTERS 993 TO 1121
1519 TO 1520
translated by R.A.B. Mynors
annotated by Peter G. Bietenholz
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Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536.
[Works]
Collected works of Erasmus
Includes index.
Partial contents: v. 7. The correspondence of Erasmus:
letters 993 to 1121, 1519 to 1520 / translated by R. A.B. Mynors;
annotated by Peter G. Bietenholz.
ISBN 0-8020-5607-5
1. Erasmus, Desiderius, d. 1536. 1. 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
Peter G. Bietenholz, University of Saskatchewan
Alexander Dalzell, University of Toronto
Anthony T. Graf ton, Princeton University
Paul F. Grendler, University of Toronto
James K. McConica, University of Toronto, Chairman
Erika Rummel, 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
Peter G. Bietenholz, University of Saskatchewan
Harald Bohne, University of Toronto Press
Alexander Dalzell, University of Toronto
Anthony T. Graf ton, Princeton University
Paul F. Grendler, University of Toronto
James K. McConica, University of Toronto
Ian Montagnes, University of Toronto Press
R.J. Schoeck, University of Colorado
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
J. Trapman, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie
van Wetenschappen
Maria Cytowska, University of Warsaw
O.B. Hardison jr, Georgetown University
Otto Herding, Universitat Freiburg
Jozef IJsewijn, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Robert M. Kingdon, University of Wisconsin
Paul Oskar Kristeller, Columbia University
Maurice Lebel, Universite Laval
Jean-Claude Margolin, Centre d'etudes superieures de la
Renaissance de Tours
Bruce M. Metzger, Princeton Theological Seminary
Clarence H. Miller, St Louis University
Heiko A. Oberman, University of Arizona
Margaret Mann Phillips, University of London
John Rowlands, British Museum
J.S.G. Simmons, Oxford University
John Tedeschi, University of Wisconsin
J.B. Trapp, Warburg Institute
Contents
Illustrations
viii
Preface
ix
Map showing the principal places mentioned in volume 7
xiv
LETTERS 993 TO 1121
1
The Dialogue of the Two-tongued and the Trilinguals
Dialogus bilinguium ac trilinguium
translated by Paul Pascal
annotated by Peter G. Bietenholz and Paul Pascal
329
Notes
349
Table of Correspondents
438
Works Frequently Cited
441
Short-Title Forms for Erasmus' Works
444
Index
449
Illustrations
Lorenzo Campeggi
8
Lady Alice More
20
Pope Leo x
56
Etienne Poncher
82
Floris van Egmond
84
Frederick in, Elector of Saxony
104
Henry Guildford
106
Emperor Ferdinand I
164
Johannes Oecolampadius
202
Willibald Pirckheimer
234
Medal of Erasmus, with the figure of Terminus on the reverse
260
The Field of Cloth of Gold
292-3
Juan Luis Vives
296
Philippus Melanchthon
314
Preface
On i July 1519, when Erasmus wrote the first letter published in this volume,
he had lived for two years in Lou vain. All things considered, it had been a
most agreeable time, productive and carefree. He continued to occupy his
rooms at the College of the Lily for almost as long again, but if we can believe
the surviving letters, his last two years in Louvain turned out to be very
different. Mutual recognition of scholarly achievement which led initially to
Erasmus' co-option into Louvain's renowned faculty of theology was giving
way to bitter conflict and controversy. In this respect Louvain was a micro-
cosm of Erasmus' world, which was undergoing deep strain. Exuberant
expectation of a golden age of civilized Christianity was giving way to
helpless apprehension at the progress of what Erasmus often called the
'Lutherana tragoedia/ a play that was to end in catastrophe.1 Erasmus was,
above all, a writer and scholar; in the second half of his stay in Louvain,
however, his literary and scholarly output fell notably short of the preceding
period. In 1517 he had given the reading public two of the finest of his
shorter treatises, the Querela pads and the Ratio verae theologiae.2 After that he
published some essays originally composed decades earlier,3 but no really
new literary work was launched until the Colloquia of March 1522.4 The
monumental scholarly achievement of the first half of his stay in Louvain was
of course the second edition of the New Testament,5 while his edition of
Cyprian was a remarkable pioneering effort.6 Neither had an immediate
sequel in the second half, although before Erasmus left the Netherlands for
good - and especially during the carefree summer of 1521 spent at
Anderlecht7 - he must have drafted a good deal of the new Colloquia and also
done some preliminary work on other new publications that appeared
during the early months of his stay at Basel.8 At least the paraphrases to the
New Testament, a highly influential enterprise grounded on Erasmus'
philosophia Christi and based on his preceding labours in the treadmill of the
New Testament edition, continued to appear steadily throughout the four
years he spent in Louvain and subsequently during the early years in Basel.9
