Neo-Latin
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Neo-Latin is the style of written Latin used in original literary, scholarly, and scientific works, first in Italy during the Italian Renaissance of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and then ac
Linnaeus, 1st edition of Systema Naturae is a famous New Latin text.
Erasmus stood at the forefront of the movement to reform Latin and learning.
Christophorus Stimmelius, the German author of the first and highly successful comedy about student life
A fifteenth century lecture
Erasmus
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Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, commonly known in English as Erasmus of Rotterdam or simply Erasmus, was a Dutch humanist, Catholic theologian, and pioneering philologist and educationalist. He was, t
Erasmus, in a 1523 portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger
First page of Preface, Annotations of the New Testament (1521), with characteristic Froben decoration
Statue of Erasmus in Rotterdam. Gilded bronze statue by Hendrick de Keyser (1622), replacing a stone (1557), and a wooden (1549).
Hieronymous Bosch, Temptation of St Anthony, triptych (c. 1501), painted in 's-Hertogenbosch, later owned by his friend Damião de Gois