Happy Birthday Erasmus
Today we remember the birth of the man who came to be known as Erasmus of Rotterdam, sometimes Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, he entering the world on October 28 (that is pretty certain) likely in 1466 (the year of his birth is somewhat in dispute). This is the 559th anniversary of that day
I’ll be adding more later, but for now let me note that in the early 1500’s some ten to twenty percent of all books published and read were his works.
(More to follow)
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