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The Correspondence of Erasmus. Vol. III: Letters 298 to 445 (1514 to 1516). Translated by R. A. B. Mynors and D. F. S. Thomson; annotated by James K. McConica. Toronto-Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1976. 22 pls.+xvi+392 pp. $25.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Clarence H. Miller
Clarence H. Miller*
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St. Louis University
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Renaissance Quarterly , Volume 31 , Issue 1 , Spring 1978 , pp. 55 - 61
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1 I found only two misprints: ‘make’ for ‘makes’ (p. 55, 1. 19) and ‘wordly’ for ‘worldly’ (p. 312, 1. 59). Perhaps ‘set’ (p. 121, 1. 325) for ‘appositi’ is merely a misprint for what Erasmus surely meant: ‘fit.’

2 The Latin will enable the reader to appreciate the translator's skill: ‘Vix egressus sum diuersorium quoddam, quod est medio ferine spatio inter Rusellam et Gandauum, cum equus meus visis pannis aliquot humi stratis consternatur, dumque inflexus paro nescio quid dicere ministro, rursum territus equus in diuersum fertur, atque ita distorquet imam dorsi spinam vt repente magnis clamoribus cruciatum intolerabilem testari cogerer. Conor ex equo descendere, non possum; minister manibus exceptum deponit; saeuit dolor mollis explicandus verbis, maxime si corpus inflexissem. Erectus minus affligebar, sed tamen ipse me non poteram erigere semel incuruatus. Eram illic in agris, nulla diuersoria nisi frigidissima et rusticissima, et aberam a Gandauo sex maximis passuum milibus. Sensi ambulatione minus saeuire malum, et tamen longius erat iter quam vt vel a sano pedibus confici posset.

‘Cogita quid mihi hie fuerit animi. Voui diuo Paulo me commentaries in epistolam ad Romanos absoluturum, si contingeret hoc periculi euadere.’

3 Mentioned by both Erasmus and More, pp. 292, 316.

4 Bibliotheca Belgica: Bibliographic générale des Pays Bos, ed. F. van der Haeghen (Ghent, 1898-1923), vol. XIII (vol. II, 271-1048, of the reissue, ed. Marie-Thérèse Lenger, 6 vols. [Brussels, 1964-70]), E851, E856, E857, E859, E861, E864, E865, E867, E868, E869, E871, E872.

5 Adag. 8 and Cicero Fam. 16.24.1 (1. 408); Adag. 48 and Terence Eun. 245 (ll. 657, 777).

6 Picot, Emil, ‘La Sottie en France,’ Romania, 7 (1878), 236–326 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

7 Annalecta Hymnica 54, 168-170, No. 110. The sequence is anonymous and (so far as I know) only Erasmus attributes it to a St. Thomas.

8 See Gregorius, quoted in the Glossa ordinaria (PL 113, col. 572; also col. 581), and Rabanus Maurus (Comment, in libros IV Regum, 2, 11, PL 109, cols. 100-101).

9 ‘Primum quae potest illic esse mordacitas, vbi nullius omnino nomen perstringitur praeterquam meum?’ (ll. 167-169).

10 ‘Ad haec, cum, iuxta argumenti suscepti rationem per omnia mortalium genera voluar et in taxandis singulorum vitiis verser, quaeso quid vsquam aut dictu foedum occurrit aut virulentum?’ (ll. 180-183).

11 ‘Cur Hieronymus multa reprehendit et corrigit nominatim, quae tamen in hac habentur aeditione?’ (ll. 721-722).