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Erasmus, Desiderius.
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key figure in the 'revival of learning' in Europe; strongly affected by the illegitimacy of his birth;
Batho, G. R., 2001
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Elyot
Cowan, Steven, 2008
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Cominius
Kelly, G., 1969
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1466 October
Birth of Erasmus
1480
Erasmus' parents die
1483
Erasmus enters Augustinian monastery
1486
Erasmus' "De Contempu Mundi"
1492
Erasmus ordained priest
1493
Erasmus enters service of Bishop of Cambrai
1499
Erasmus and Blount travel to England
1500
Erasmus dedicates "Adagia" to Mountjoy
1502
Erasmus declines Chair of Rhetoric at Louvain
1507
Erasmus accepts offer to move to Venice
1509
Erasmus moves to Rome
1509
Erasmus writes "The Praise of Folly"
1511
Erasmus' "De Ratione Studii"
1511
Erasmus publishes "De Copia"
1514
Erasmus moves to Basle
1516
Erasmus seeks papal dispensation
1520 June
Erasmus' letter to Cominius
1529
Erasmus' "De Pueris instituendis"
1536 July
Death of Erasmus