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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Xxiv, 503 pp. Table of correspondents; works cited, short-title forms; index, coinages of Henry VIIIC. Map, b/w illustrations. Large octavo. Cream dust jacket with bronze medallion has minor shelf wear. Book itself is clean, tight and unmarked. A very nice copy. Covers ".Erasmus' controversies with a variety of critics and opponents. The publication in March of the dialogue Ciceronianus, for example, provoked a huge uproar in France because it included an ironic jest that was considered insulting to the great French humanist Guillaume Bude. More serious were the continuing efforts of conservative Catholics in France (Noël Béda) , Italy (Alberto Pio) , and Spain (members of the religious orders) to prove not only that Erasmus was a secret Lutheran but also that humanist scholarship was the source of the Lutheran heresy. In response to these charges Erasmus wrote letters and books in which he vigorously defended his orthodoxy and assiduously cultivated the support of his many admirers among the princes and prelates of Europe. The letters also record Erasmus' growing anxiety over the progress of the Reformation in Basel, which would cause him to leave the city in 1529; his diligent attention to his financial affairs, which had improved in recent years thanks to the assistance of the Antwerp banker, Erasmus Schets"; Collected Works of Erasmus; Vol. 14; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 503 pages.