TY - GEN AU - Akkerman,Fokke AU - Waszink,Jan AU - Haskell,Yasmin AU - Money,David AU - Vermeulen,Corinna AU - Kool,Wouter TI - Rudolph Agricola: Six Lives and Erasmus’s Testimonies SN - OAPEN_426371 PY - 2012/// CY - Assen PB - Koninklijke van Gorcum KW - Biography: historical, political & military KW - bicssc KW - desiderius erasmus KW - rudolph agricola KW - gerardus geldenhouwer KW - johann von plieningen KW - neo-latin KW - biography KW - goswinus van halen KW - humanism KW - philipp melanchton KW - Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi KW - Deventer KW - Groningen KW - Heidelberg KW - Rodolphus Agricola N1 - Open Access N2 - Rudolph Agricola: Six Lives and Erasmus’s Testimonies The Frisian humanist Rudolph Agricola (1443-1485) is rightly famous for single-handedly bringing the Italian Renaissance to the North. Owing to his fascinating personality and many talents, he attracted the love and admiration of his contemporaries and the following generations. As a result, six biographies on Agricola have been preserved. The authors of these lives drew their materials from different sources and wrote their texts independently from each other. Differing vastly in rhetorical aims and methods, they provide us with a vivid image of cultural and intellectual life in the 15th century. Erasmus praised Agricola's work throughout his writings. No less than fifty testimonies from Erasmus and his correspondents are presented here. This edition of sources supplements the volume of Agricola's letters (BLN, 2002) and is preceded by an expert survey of all biographical information now at our disposal. Thus it fills a gap in our knowledge of a great man of letters, while correcting a number of persistent misconceptions (concerning the year of Agricola's birth, for instance) UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/34474/1/426371.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/34474/1/426371.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/34474/1/426371.pdf UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/39178 ER -