Praise Of Folly

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Folly made flesh: Erasmus's Praise of Folly, where Folly herself climbs the pulpit to praise her own gentle reign over all mankind, and Brant's Ship of Fools, that loads every kind of fool aboard one drifting vessel. The Renaissance held folly up as a mirror in which a foolish world might, laughing, know itself. — Renaissance literature