Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)

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No. Title Page Author The Work Year Discipline Collection
1 Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)
Erasmus against War with an Introduction by J. W. Mackail (Boston: The Merrymount Press, MDCCCCVII (1917)).
Editor's Note: The Humanists’ Library. Edited by Lewis Einstein. II. This is a modernized version of an English translation of Erasmus’s Dulce Bellum Inexpertis (war is sweet to those who have not experienced it) (1517) which was published in 1534 as Bellum Erasmi (Erasmus on War).
1517 Political Thought Guillaumin
2 Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536)
Desiderius Erasmus, The Complaint of Peace. Translated from the Querula Pacis (A. D. 1521) of Erasmus. (Chicago London: The Open Court Publishing Co., 1917).
Editor's Note: The editor of the 1917 edition says that the translation comes from an English edition published in 1802, or the “First Year of General Peace.” It lacks the Preface by the anonymous editor of this edition.
1521 Political Thought Guillaumin