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Folie et déraison à la Renaissance : colloque international tenu en novembre 1973 sous les auspices de la Fédération internationale des instituts et sociétés pour l'étude de la Renaissance.
Date: [1976], ©1976
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A drunken Bacchus cavorts atop the globe, accompanied by Fortune; to his right physicians and quacks fight for legitimacy; to his left the scales held by a blindfold Justice are tipped by a lawyer's money: an allegory of the world of justice and health overturned into one of chance and greed. Coloured etching by Daniël Veelwaard I after J. Smies, 1809.
Smies, Jacob, 1764-1833.Date: 1809Reference: 17675i- Pictures
A chariot driven by Folly and pulled by speculative trading companies displays a figure of Fortune corrupting honest trade. Etching by B. Picart, ca. 1720.
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733.Date: [1720?]Reference: 812283iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.
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A man foolishly trying to treat his own illnesses by imitating a physician. Colour lithograph by C. E.(?), 1931.
E. C.Date: 1931Reference: 537097i- Books
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The praise of folly. Translated from the best Latin edition of Erasmus, by W. Kennet, late lord bishop of Peterborough. Illustrated with fifty curious cuts, by the celebrated Hans Holbeine. To which is prefixed, the author's epistle to Sir Thomas More. And the life of the author, by Thomas Brown.
Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536.Date: [1785?]