No personal denunciation was made of Erasmus during his lifetime, however, and he took pains to put distance in later life with these earlier episodes by condemning sodomy in his works, and praising sexual desire in the context of marriage between men and women.

Most of the manuscripts were, however, late Greek manuscripts of the Byzantine textual family and Erasmus used the oldest manuscript the least because " he was afraid of its supposedly erratic text.

By the coming of the Age of Enlightenment, however, Erasmus increasingly returned to become a more widely respected cultural symbol and was hailed as an important figure by increasingly broad groups.

While Gilbert emphasizes the similarities however, he agrees with all other commentators that Machiavelli was particularly novel in the way he used this genre, even when compared to his contemporaries such as Baldassare Castiglione and Erasmus.

Erasmus, however, translated pithos into the Latin word pyxis, meaning " box ".

Luther's contention that the human will was incapable of following good, however, resulted in his rift with Erasmus finally distinguishing Lutheran reformism from humanism.

It was not, however, to these sources that Beza was chiefly indebted, but rather to the previous edition of the eminent Robert Estienne ( 1550 ), itself based in great measure upon one of the later editions of Erasmus.

It is however distincly not part of the E. U. wide Erasmus Programme.

Rassie Erasmus was hoping for a top half of the table finish, however the Stormers exceeded expectations and after losing their first 3 games of the season fought back to finish tied for 4th place on the log, missing out on an away semi final due to an inferior points differential to the Hurricanes.

This work, in which one notices the lack of progress which had been made in criticism, was criticised by Erasmus for the grammatical section, and by Beda for the theological section, however this did not prevent it from being valued and studied

Erasmus ’ stylistic form of writing was often compared to the standards set forth by Cicero ( particularly the influence of his De Inventione ); however, Erasmus ’ primary goal for Christian Prince and all of his works, as he argued, was to be seen as ‘ a Christian rather than a Ciceronian .’ Christian Prince is another example of Erasmus ’ rhetorically stylistic mastery that serves as a testament to his ability to imbue the teachings of Christ ( embodying Cicero's concept of " imitator ").

His lectures were published, as recreated from his students ' notes ; among those who attended was the young Erasmus.

Tyndale worked directly from the Hebrew and Greek, occasionally consulting the Vulgate and Erasmus ’ s Latin version, and he used Luther's Bible for the prefaces, marginal notes and the biblical text.

Erasmus Darwin notes Monboddo's work in his publications ( Darwin 1803 ).

Erasmus Darwin also visited, and notes the outcrops of copper-bearing rocks ...

He further notes that the eighteenth-century Jesuit literary critic Girolamo Tiraboschi ‘ is rather annoyed that Erasmus speaks ill of our author as a controversialist, but is compelled to allow it to be true .’

In 1499, while in England, Erasmus was particularly impressed by the Bible teaching of John Colet who pursued a style more akin to the church fathers than the Scholastics.

In this controversy Erasmus lets it be seen that he would like to claim more for free will than St. Paul and St. Augustine seem to allow according to Luther's interpretation.

For example, in De libero arbitrio, opposing certain views of Martin Luther, Erasmus noted that religious disputants should be temperate in their language, " because in this way the truth, which is often lost amidst too much wrangling may be more surely perceived.

" Gary Remer writes, " Like Cicero, Erasmus concludes that truth is furthered by a more harmonious relationship between interlocutors.

Erasmus also wrote of the legendary Frisian freedom fighter and rebel Pier Gerlofs Donia ( Greate Pier ), though more often criticism than praise of his exploits.

") Erasmus spoke favourably of Holbein as an artist and person, but later criticized Holbein whom he had accused of sponging off of various patrons to whom Erasmus had recommended, for purposes more of monetary gain than artistic endeavor.

His conduct evoked the fiercest denunciations of Luther, but it also displeased more moderate men, especially Erasmus.

Hieronymus Buclidius, a friend of Erasmus, gave more than 20, 000 francs to establish a branch of Hebrew studies at Louvain in Flanders.

Charles Darwin's grandfather Erasmus Darwin outlined a hypothesis of transmutation of species in the 1790s, and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck published a more developed theory in 1809.

Erasmus saluted him as one " whose soul was more pure than any snow, whose genius was such that England never had and never again will have its like ".

Even Erasmus became much more favourable towards the idea once he witnessed the accomplishments of More's daughters.

His friend Erasmus defended More's character as " more pure than any snow " and described his genius as " such as England never had and never again will have.

Led by Erasmus, the humanists condemned various forms of corruption within the church, forms of corruption that might not have been any more prevalent than during the medieval zenith of the church.

) Eck, irritated all the more because early in the year he had induced Erasmus to caution, the young theological student against precipitating himself into the religious conflict, retorted that Melanchthon knew nothing of theology.

The attached folio contains a mix of 21 generally spiritual songs: a prose-prayer to Saint Erasmus and four more spiritual plays, some of which have only survived as fragments.

However, Henry himself appears to have been much more influenced by the opinions on monasticism of the humanists Desiderius Erasmus and Thomas More, especially as found in Erasmus's work In Praise of Folly ( 1511 ) and More's Utopia ( 1516 ).

Henry himself corresponded continually with Erasmus ; prompting him to be more explicit in his public rejection of the key tenets of Lutheranism, and offering him church preferement, should he wish to return to England.

" This Charles Darwin was the eldest son of Erasmus Darwin and not his more famous nephew, Charles Robert Darwin.

Linacre's intellectual fastidiousness and minute accuracy were, as Erasmus suggests, the chief cause why he left no more permanent literary memorials.

In the Erasmus programme for student exchange, the University of Tartu cooperates with more than 200 universities in 26 countries.

Queens ' College has been a centre of learning for more than 550 years and its distinguished alumni include Desiderius Erasmus, Stephen Fry, Abba Eban and T. H. White.

For example, in De libero arbitrio, opposing certain views of Martin Luther, Erasmus noted that religious disputants should be temperate in their language, " because in this way the truth, which is often lost amidst too much wrangling may be more surely perceived.

Erasmus is also generally credited with originating the phrase " Pandora's box ", arising through an error in his translation of Pandora by Hesiod in which he confused " pithos ", storage jar, with " pyxis ", box.

" Erasmus: Recent Critical Editions and Translations ,". Renaissance Quarterly 54 # 1 2001. pp 246 + Discusses both the Toronto translation and the entirely separate Latin edition published in Amsterdam since 1969 online edition

Perhaps the strongest evidence in favor of Gutenberg is therefore that Mainz has in its possession today a first-edition of Erasmus ' Lof der Zotheid ( English translation: The Praise of Folly ), which was written in Gouda, but printed in Mainz in 1511.

Sharing Erasmus ' translation ideals, Tyndale took the ill-regarded, unpopular and awkward Middle-English " vulgar " tongue, improved upon it using Greek and Hebrew syntaxes and idioms, and formed an Early Modern English basis Shakespeare and others would later follow and build on as Tyndale-inspired vernacular forms took over.

* Desiderius Erasmus publishes a new Greek translation of the New Testament.

The first two are among the neatest Greek texts known, and are called O mirificam ; the third is a splendid masterpiece of typographical skill, and is known as the Editio Regia ; the edition of 1551 contains the Latin translation of Erasmus and the Vulgate, is not nearly as fine as the other three, and is exceedingly rare.

The edition of 1551 contains the Latin translation of Erasmus and the Vulgate.

At Erasmus ’ request, Vergil worked on a translation from the Greek of Dio Chrysostom's De Perfecto Monacho, which he published in 1533.

Under the influence of Erasmus and his kind, with their new insistence on classical learning, there came necessarily a new appraisal of the Vulgate as a translation of the original Bible.

* Erasmus Darwin begins publication of A System of Vegetables, a translation of Linnaeus in which he coins many common English language names of plants.

Rather, Erasmus included the Comma because he wished to avoid any suspicion of personal unorthodoxy which might undermine the acceptance of his translation:

He himself had a sometimes tense relationship with Erasmus, whose work on Biblical translation and in theology closely paralleled his own.

Apophthegmatum opus a translation of Plutarch's Apophthegmata by Erasmus of Rotterdam.

His printing of Erasmus ' Novum Testamentum ( 1516 ) was used by Martin Luther for his translation.

In Erasmus ' 1516 translation and commentary he became the first to use repentance rather than penitence.

This was a translation of a Latin work Precatio Dominica by Erasmus, as A Devout Treatise upon the Paternoster.