![]() ![]() 79 Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Erasmus’s De Copia, and Sentential Ambiguity JEFFREY J. It was a best-seller widely used for teaching how to rewrite pre-existing texts, and how to incorporate them in a new composition. The four works presented here in annotated translations are characteristic expressions of his dedication to learning and his confidence in the values of classical literature for the modern world of his time.Ĭopia: Foundations of the Abundant Style (Latin: De Utraque Verborum ac Rerum Copia) is a rhetoric textbook written by Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus, and first published in 1512. Though never a university teacher except briefly at Cambridge (1311-14), he was a 'teacher of teachers' through his treatises on pedagogy and rhetoric and his many works of scholarship. ![]() For centuries the classical curriculum was the core of liberal education, and Erasmus was long regarded as its exemplar. Towards these ends the soundest training for youth was what Erasmus often called bonne litterae, 'good letters,' a literary and rhetorical training based on Greek and Latin authors. The aim of Erasmian education was a civilized life, expressed in Christian piety and the fulfilment of public and private duties and embellished by learning and literature. Book Description: These volumes are the first in a series containing works by Erasmus 'that concern literature and education': interests which to him were scarcely separable. ![]()
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