Erasmus of Rotterdam / Arnoldus Montanus (commentary):

Colloquia Nunc Emendatiora. Cum Annotationibus Arnoldi Montani.

Amsterdam, Joh. Janssonius, 1658. 12mo. [24] pp. incl. engraved title and engraved plate + 820, + 44 pp. (Coronis apologetica). Title with woodcut printer’s device. With Erasmus' preface-letter to Froben at Basel, dated 1524, and the Vita Erasmi preceding the Colloquia, as well as two indices of authors and dialogues. Included at the end is a short essay explaining the usefulness of the book.

Contemporary vellum, lightly soiled, slight paper loss to front pastedown, a few old annotations in ink.

In his Colloquia, first published in 1518, Erasmus of Rotterdam deploys a series of Latin dialogues that are witty, erudite, and biting, originally conceived as linguistic exercises for students but having become a critical mirror of European society in the 16th century. Along with Erasmus’s entire opus the book was placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum for the author’s failure to take a sufficiently critical stance against the Protestant Reformation.

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