The Reception of Erasmus in the Early Modern Period Intersections Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture General Editor Karl A.E. Enenkel Chair of Medieval and Neo-Latin Literature Westfälische Wilhelmsuniversität Münster e-mail: kenen_01@uni_muenster.de Editorial Board W. van Anrooij (University of Leiden) W. de Boer (Miami University) K.A.E. Enenkel (University of Münster) J.L. de Jong (University of Groningen) W.S. Melion (Emory University) K. Murphy (University of Oxford) W. Neuber (NYU Abu Dhabi) P.J. Smith (University of Leiden) A. Traninger (Freie Universität Berlin) C. Zittel (Freie Universität Berlin) VOLUME 30 – 2013 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/inte Intersections The Reception of Erasmus Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture in the Early Modern Period General Editor Karl A.E. Enenkel Chair of Medieval and Neo-Latin Literature Edited by Westfälische Wilhelmsuniversität Münster Karl A.E. Enenkel e-mail: kenen_01@uni_muenster.de Editorial Board W. van Anrooij (University of Leiden) W. de Boer (Miami University) K.A.E. Enenkel (University of Münster) J.L. de Jong (University of Groningen) W.S. Melion (Emory University) K. Murphy (University of Oxford) W. Neuber (NYU Abu Dhabi) P.J. Smith (University of Leiden) A. Traninger (Freie Universität Berlin) C. Zittel (Freie Universität Berlin) VOLUME 30 – 2013 LEIDEN • BOSTON The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/inte 2013 Cover illustration: Portrait of Desiderius Erasmus with his god “Terminus” (ca. 1538). Woodcut by Veit Specklin, 286 × 148 mm. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The reception of Erasmus in the early modern period / edited by Karl A.E. Enenkel. pages cm. — (Intersections: interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture, ISSN 1568–1181 ; volume 30) Includes bibliographical references and index. 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CONTENTS Acknowledgements ........................................................................................ vii Notes on the Editor ........................................................................................ ix Notes on the Contributors ........................................................................... xi List of Illustrations .......................................................................................... xv Introduction – Manifold Reader Responses: The Reception of Erasmus in the Early Modern Europe ................................................. 1 Karl Enenkel PART I HUMANISM A Blueprint for the Reception of Erasmus: Beatus Rhenanus’s Second Vita Erasmi (1540) ....................................................................... 25 Karl Enenkel Medicinae laus per Eobanum Hessum ex Erasmo, versu reddita Reassessed .................................................................................................... 41 Dirk Sacré PART II RELIGIOUS IDEAS Universalism and Tolerance in a Follower of Erasmus from Zurich: Theodor Bibliander ................................................................................... 85 Lucia Felici ‘Betwixt Heaven and Hell’: Religious Toleration and the Reception of Erasmus in Restoration England ...................................................... 103 Gregory D. Dodds vi contents Praise and Blame: Peter Canisius’s Ambivalent Assessment of Erasmus ......................................................................................................... 129 Hilmar M. Pabel PART III POLITICAL IDEAS: IRENISM AND MIRROR OF A CHRISTIAN PRINCE Erasmian Irenism in the Poetry of Pierre de Ronsard ........................ 163 Philip Ford† On Good Government: Erasmus’s Institutio Principis Christiani versus Lipsius’s Politica ............................................................................ 179 Jeanine De Landtsheer PART IV RABELAISIAN SATIRE, TRIUMPH, DIALOGUE AND OTHER ADAPTATIONS: RECEPTIONS OF THE PRAISE OF FOLLY IN FRENCH, ITALIAN AND DUTCH LITERATURE Jean Thenaud and François Rabelais: Some Hypotheses on the Early Reception of Erasmus in French Vernacular Literature ..... 211 Paul J. Smith Antonio Brucioli and the Italian Reception of Erasmus: The Praise of Folly in Dialogue ............................................................... 237 Reinier Leushuis Erasmus and the Radical Enlightenment: An Atheistic Adaptation of The Praise of Folly by Jan van der Wyck (1798) ........................... 261 Johannes Trapman Index Nominum .............................................................................................. 273 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The majority of the contributions published in this volume go back to papers delivered at the conference Around Erasmus (Amsterdam, 13–14 January 2011), which was organized by Jan Bloemendal and Karl Enen- kel. The conference would not have been possible without the generous support of the University of Amsterdam, and the Seminar für Lateinische Philologie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit of the Westfälische Wilhelms- Universität Münster. We wish to express our special gratitude to Jan Bloe- mendal for the excellent organizational work he has done to make this conference happen, and for his contribution to the editorial preparation of this volume. Most regrettably, because of personal reasons, Jan Bloe- mendal decided to withdraw as an editor of this volume. Furthermore, we want to thank Olga Bode, Tobias Enseleit, Pia Kazmierczak, Viktoria Overfeld, and Lukas Reddemann for the typographical revision of this volume. NOTES ON THE EDITOR Karl Enenkel is Professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin at the West- fälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Germany). Previously he was Pro- fessor of Neo-Latin at Leiden University (Netherlands). He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences and principal inves- tigator in the Cluster of Excellence of the University of Münster, “Politik und Religion”. He has published widely on international Humanism, early modern organisation of knowledge, literary genres 1300–1600, and emblem studies. Among his major book publications are Francesco Petrarca: De vita solitaria, Buch 1. (1991), Kulturoptimismus und Kulturpessimismus in der Renaissance (1995), and Die Erfindung des Menschen. Die Autobiographik des frühneuzeitlichen Humanismus von Petrarca bis Lipsius (2008). He has (co)edited and co-authored some 25 volumes, among others, Modelling the Individual. Biography and Portrait in the Renaissance (1998), Recreating Ancient History (2001), Mundus Emblematicus. Studies in Neo-Latin Emblem Books (2003), Cognition and the Book. Typologies of Formal Organisation of Knowledge in the Printed Book of the Early Modern Period (2004), Petrarch and his Readers in the Renaissance (2006), Early Modern Zoology (2007), The Sense of Suffering. Constructions of Physical Pain in Early Modern Cul- ture (2009), The Neo-Latin Epigram (2009), Meditatio – Refashioning the Self. Theory and Practice in Late Medieval and Early Modern Intellectual Culture (2011), Portuguese Humanism (2011), The Authority of the Word (2011), and Discourses of Power. Ideology and Politics in Neo-Latin Literature (2012, Noctes Neolatinae. Neo-Latin Texts and Studies). He has founded the international series Intersections (Brill); Proteus. Studies in Early Mod- ern Identity Formation; Speculum Sanitatis: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Medical Culture (500–1800) (both Brepols), and Scientia universa- lis. Studien und Texteditionen zur Wissensgeschichte der Vormoderne (LIT- Verlag). He is member of the editorial board of, among others, Humanis- tica Lovaniensia, Imago figurata, and the Conseil international pour l’édition des oeuvres complètes d’Erasme. NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS Gregory D. Dodds is Professor of European History at the Walla Walla University (New Zealand) and holds the Chair in Department of History and Philosophy. He has written a monograph on the reception of Erasmus: Exploiting Erasmus: The Erasmian Legacy and Religious Change in Early Modern England (Toronto: 2009). Among his main fields of interests are Erasmus, Early Modern History, British History, and History of Christianity. Lucia Felici is Associate Professor of Modern History (History of the Reformation and Counter Reformation) at the University of Florence (Università degli Studi di Firenze),