TY  - BOOK
AU  - Akkerman, Fokke
AU  - Waszink, Jan
AU  - Haskell, Yasmin
AU  - Money, David
AU  - Vermeulen, Corinna
AU  - Kool, Wouter
AB  - Rudolph Agricola: Six Lives and Erasmus’s Testimonies The Frisian humanist Rudolph Agricola (1443-1485) is rightly famous for single-handedly bringing the Italian Renaissance to the North. Owing to his fascinating personality and many talents, he attracted the love and admiration of his contemporaries and the following generations. As a result, six biographies on Agricola have been preserved. The authors of these lives drew their materials from different sources and wrote their texts independently from each other. Differing vastly in rhetorical aims and methods, they provide us with a vivid image of cultural and intellectual life in the 15th century. Erasmus praised Agricola's work throughout his writings. No less than fifty testimonies from Erasmus and his correspondents are presented here.   This edition of sources supplements the volume of Agricola's letters (BLN, 2002) and is preceded by an expert survey of all biographical information now at our disposal. Thus it fills a gap in our knowledge of a great man of letters, while correcting a number of persistent misconceptions (concerning the year of Agricola's birth, for instance).
DO  - 10.26530/OAPEN_426371
ID  - OAPEN ID: 426371
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 842294860
KW  - desiderius erasmus
KW  - rudolph agricola
KW  - gerardus geldenhouwer
KW  - johann von plieningen
KW  - neo-latin
KW  - biography
KW  - goswinus van halen
KW  - humanism
KW  - philipp melanchton
KW  - Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi
KW  - Deventer
KW  - Groningen
KW  - Heidelberg
KW  - Rodolphus Agricola
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/ea8b3027-5635-456b-9d72-fc9eda11b88e/426371.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/34474
PB  - Koninklijke van Gorcum
PP  - Assen
PY  - 2012
TI  - Rudolph Agricola: Six Lives and Erasmus’s Testimoniesnull
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