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Folie et déraison à la Renaissance : colloque international tenu en novembre 1973 sous les auspices de la Fédération internationale des instituts et sociétés pour l'étude de la Renaissance.
Date: [1976], ©1976
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A drunken Bacchus cavorts atop the globe, accompanied by Fortune; to his right physicians and quacks fight for legitimacy; to his left the scales held by a blindfold Justice are tipped by a lawyer's money: an allegory of the world of justice and health overturned into one of chance and greed. Coloured etching by Daniël Veelwaard I after J. Smies, 1809.
Smies, Jacob, 1764-1833.Date: 1809Reference: 17675i- Pictures
A chariot driven by Folly and pulled by speculative trading companies displays a figure of Fortune corrupting honest trade. Etching by B. Picart, ca. 1720.
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733.Date: [1720?]Reference: 812283iPart of: Groote tafereel der dwaasheid.
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A man foolishly trying to treat his own illnesses by imitating a physician. Colour lithograph by C. E.(?), 1931.
E. C.Date: 1931Reference: 537097i- Books
Encomium moriae, sive declamatio, in laudem stulticiae / [Desiderius Erasmus].
Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536.Date: 1622