WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In Praise of Folly, also translated as The Praise of Folly (Latin: Stultitiae Laus or Moriae Encomium), is an essay written in Latin in 1509 by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam and first printed in June 1511.

Detailed explanation-2: -Erasmus’s most famous book, “In Prince of Folly", used satire to criticize Church leaders and practices. Satire (work of literature that makes fun of its subject, often mocking vice or folly) is a kind of writing that uses ridicule or sarcasm to criticize vice or folly.

Detailed explanation-3: -In his In Praise of Folly, Desiderius Erasmus criticized the Roman Catholic Church and unquestioning adherents and disciples of the church. Erasmus used humor and satire and the representative character of Folly to poke fun at the corruption and abuses of the church.

Detailed explanation-4: -“A remarkable thing happens in the experience of my fools: from them not only true things, but even sharp reproaches, will be listened to; so that a statement which, if it came from a wise man’s mouth, might be a capital offense, coming from a fool gives rise to incredible delight.

Detailed explanation-5: -Erasmus’ particular fool’s literature, Moriae Encomium (1509), revealed his humanist concerns for civil and ecclesial society as a whole. He employed folly as a rhetorical instrument in satirical manner, evoking readers’ amusement from numerous charges against the perceived multi-layered social reality of the day.