Chapter V · RESIDENCE IN ITALY—THE "PRAISE OF FOLLY" 1506-1509 (continued 2)
Reading edition
Erasmus did not exaggerate the immense and immediate popularity of the Moria. Our bibliography enumerates forty-three editions in the author's lifetime, and it has been translated and reprinted since then an infinite number of times. Holbein amused himself by decorating the margin of his copy with these rude but clever wood-cuts which have come to be the permanent types of the various orders of Erasmian fools.