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Thirteenth-Annual Margaret Mann Phillips Lecture

Thirteenth-Annual Margaret Mann Phillips Lecture [30] Thirteenth-Annual Margaret Mann Phillips Lecture: From the Cradle : Erasmus on Intimacy in Renaissance Letters* by Kathy Eden In his wildly popular manual on the art of letter-writing, De conscribendis epistolis, Erasmus, bolstering precept with example, provides his reader with models for imitation. Many of these examples he takes from Cicero, his fa- vorite letter-writer. Some of them he writes himself solely for the purpose of illustration. In one of these fictitious letters designed to illustrate the impor- tant genre of the letter of consolation, Erasmus takes on the persona of one addressing a close friend in exile. Following his own advice on how best to console (LB 1:426A-427E; CWE 25:148-50), he writes of the power of the philosophical spirit, armed with virtue, to withstand even so malign a fortune as separation from wife, children, friends and country (LB 1:428E-F; CWE 25:152):1 Philosophy is the best giver of consolation; for it does not relieve each trouble singly by useless palliatives, but arms the mind against all the as- saults of fortune. Since from the very cradle you have been nurtured on her milk, as we might say, why do I set a sow to teach Minerva or http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook Brill

Thirteenth-Annual Margaret Mann Phillips Lecture

Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook , Volume 21 (1): 30 – Jan 1, 2001

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Brill
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© 2001 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0276-2854
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1874-9275
DOI
10.1163/187492701X00056
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[30] Thirteenth-Annual Margaret Mann Phillips Lecture: From the Cradle : Erasmus on Intimacy in Renaissance Letters* by Kathy Eden In his wildly popular manual on the art of letter-writing, De conscribendis epistolis, Erasmus, bolstering precept with example, provides his reader with models for imitation. Many of these examples he takes from Cicero, his fa- vorite letter-writer. Some of them he writes himself solely for the purpose of illustration. In one of these fictitious letters designed to illustrate the impor- tant genre of the letter of consolation, Erasmus takes on the persona of one addressing a close friend in exile. Following his own advice on how best to console (LB 1:426A-427E; CWE 25:148-50), he writes of the power of the philosophical spirit, armed with virtue, to withstand even so malign a fortune as separation from wife, children, friends and country (LB 1:428E-F; CWE 25:152):1 Philosophy is the best giver of consolation; for it does not relieve each trouble singly by useless palliatives, but arms the mind against all the as- saults of fortune. Since from the very cradle you have been nurtured on her milk, as we might say, why do I set a sow to teach Minerva or

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Published: Jan 1, 2001

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