{"product_id":"praise-of-folly-by-desiderius-erasmus-9780140446081","title":"Praise of Folly","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eErasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466–1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval pieties in favour of a rich new vision of the individual's potential.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePraise of Folly\u003c\/em\u003e, written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, is Erasmus's best-known work. Its dazzling mixture of fantasy and satire is narrated by a personification of Folly, dressed as a jester, who celebrates youth, pleasure, drunkenness, and sexual desire, and goes on to lambast human pretensions, foibles, and frailties, to mock theologians and monks, and to praise the folly of simple Christian piety.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eErasmus's wit, wordplay, and wisdom made the book an instant success, but it also attracted what may have been sales-boosting criticism. The \u003cem\u003eLetter to Maarten van Dorp\u003c\/em\u003e, which is a defence of his ideas and methods, is also included.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46502561743084,"sku":"9780140446081","price":24.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/27348583482237.jpg?v=1748617993","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/praise-of-folly-by-desiderius-erasmus-9780140446081","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}