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[37] Antonio Pellegrini's Translation of the Moriae Encomium by JOLYNN BENNETT ntonio Pellegrini's 1539 translation of Moriae Encomium, La Moria D'Erasmo Novamente in Volgare Tradotta, has been largely over- looked in discussions of Erasmus in Italy.l Benedctto Croce, one of the first to take an interest in the history of the Moria in Italy, declared that there was no Italian translation of the work earlier than 1761. He later learned of a sixteenth-century translation which was not identified until 1935 as Pellegrini's.? Apart from Croce's persistent efforts from 1885 through 1942 to discover and identify the first Italian translation of the Moria, Pellegrini has received little attention. The Pellegrini translation, however, merits examination it its own right, for what it reveals about how Erasmus was disseminated, as well as for the questions it raises about traditionally hostile reaction to Erasmus in Italy. There is no question that by February 1539, when Pellegrini's transla- tion was first published in Venice by Giovanni della Chiesa, Italy had become very suspicious of Erasmus. Although the formal prohibition of the Moria, along with the other works by Erasmus, did not occur until 1555 with the release of the first papal Index (fortified
Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1984
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