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OMNI UM HORAR UM HOMO: "A Man For All Seasons"

OMNI UM HORAR UM HOMO: "A Man For All Seasons" [141] OMNI UM HORAR UM HOMO: "A Man For All Seasons" GERMAIN MARC'HADOUR THE phrase "A Man for All Seasons," made famous almost over- night by the success of Robert Bolt's 1960 play about Thomas More, and made ubiquitous by Fred Zinnemann's oscar-winning film of 1966, comes, as the playwright himself informed his public, from Robert Whittinton's Vulgaria, a school-book first printed in 152o and often reissued in subsequent years. 1 The London grammarian devotes a whole page to a bilingual enco- mium of More, rich in epithets which correspond to Erasmus' epistol- ary portraits of More,2 and ends his sketch with the all-inclusive: "a man for all seasons: vir omnium horarum. " He does not mention his debt to Erasmus, and he may not have had any source explicitly in mind, but scholars have been prompt to catch an echo of the preface to Moriae Encomium (first published in 1 i ), in which Erasmus applies to his London amicissimus the proverbial Latin compliment, calling him "omnium horarum hominem. " Quoting presumably from memory, Whittinton need not have put any significance in the change from homo to vir, although Erasmus was not a man to use the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook Brill

OMNI UM HORAR UM HOMO: "A Man For All Seasons"

MARC'HADOUR, Germain
Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook , Volume 1 (1): 141 – Jan 1, 1981
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© 1981 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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10.1163/187492781X00102
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[141] OMNI UM HORAR UM HOMO: "A Man For All Seasons" GERMAIN MARC'HADOUR THE phrase "A Man for All Seasons," made famous almost over- night by the success of Robert Bolt's 1960 play about Thomas More, and made ubiquitous by Fred Zinnemann's oscar-winning film of 1966, comes, as the playwright himself informed his public, from Robert Whittinton's Vulgaria, a school-book first printed in 152o and often reissued in subsequent years. 1 The London grammarian devotes a whole page to a bilingual enco- mium of More, rich in epithets which correspond to Erasmus' epistol- ary portraits of More,2 and ends his sketch with the all-inclusive: "a man for all seasons: vir omnium horarum. " He does not mention his debt to Erasmus, and he may not have had any source explicitly in mind, but scholars have been prompt to catch an echo of the preface to Moriae Encomium (first published in 1 i ), in which Erasmus applies to his London amicissimus the proverbial Latin compliment, calling him "omnium horarum hominem. " Quoting presumably from memory, Whittinton need not have put any significance in the change from homo to vir, although Erasmus was not a man to use the

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