ESCOLA SECUNDRIA SCHOOL

YEAR

DE

FELGUEIRAS

2010/2011
Class: 10B N:8

Name: Domingos Manuel Machado Costa

Erasmus biography
Desiderius Erasmus was one of the greatest scholars and writers of the Renaissance and Reformation. The documents for his biography are rare and doubtful, being taken almost entirely from his own writings. When his father died he was abandoned to the care of guardians who devoured his few belongings and made him take the religious habit. Then he left this habitude and tried to gain livelihood as a tutor of the sons he of noble the families. One of the family made him went to Paris where followed degrees Montaigu College. By the influence of the Nassau Marquise he went to England where he wrote the Praise of Folly. From England he went to Italy where he met John of Mdicis (being later pope Lion X). Having obtained a dispensation from his monastic vows by Julius II, he went to Venice, then Padua. In 1509 he came back to England, called by Henrique VII.

Sometime later, he came back to his country Netherland where Carlos V gave him the title of counsellor and 200 guilders (Dutch coin). In 1521 he ended up settling in Basel where he printed a general edition of his works. Until the year of 1517 his books were mostly an animadversion about the defects of the Catholic Church system and he accompanied the battle for a truly and purified Christian religion. Here is a list of some books; Euchiridion Militis Christiani (Handbook of the Christian Soldier) talks about that the rite material of religion is so empty and simple compared with the apostolic spirit of sincere piety. Adgia this book is a collection of adages that he adds, to the philological interpretation, a continuous comment of moral reflexions which gave to the work an immediate and perdurable success. Colloquia sequence of dialogues on several topics. Some are about the addictions and madness of monks, priests, explorers of miracles and others are about superstitions and abuses from that time.

Source:
Grande Enciclopdia Portuguesa e Brasileira, Editorial Enciclopdia , Limitada