Ship of Fools (satire)
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Ship of Fools is a satirical allegory in German verse published in 1494 in Basel, Switzerland, by the humanist and theologian Sebastian Brant. It is the most famous treatment of the ship of fools trop
Title page of a 1549 edition of Ship of Fools.
Ship of Fools (Stultifera Navis) was translated into Latin in 1497; some of the woodcuts illustrating the manuscript may have been created by Albrecht Dürer. The University of Edinburgh holds a copy of the Latin edition.
Sculpture of Jürgen Weber based on the satire, located in Nuremberg, home of Albrecht Dürer.
Sebastian Brant
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Sebastian Brant was a German humanist and satirist. He is best known for his satire Das Narrenschiff.
Ship of Fools (satire)
…title: Daß Narrenschyff ad Narragoniam) is a satirical allegory in German verse published in 1494 in Basel, Switzerland, by the humanist and theologian Sebastian Brant. It is the most famous treatment of the ship of fools trope and circulated in numerous translations. The Ship of Fools was published in 1494 in Basel…
Woodcut from Das Narrenschiff