The Ship of Fools

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The Ship of Fools
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Literature

The Ship of Fools

Sebastian Brant
Edition year 1971
Binding Cloth
Translator William Gillis
Weight 1 Kg
Pages 344
Dimensions 24.1 × 14.4 cm

Edition details

The Ship of Fools, by Sebastian Brant. Translated by William Gillis. Introduction by Patricia Ingle Gillis. 118 woodcuts from the original edition, many of which are now thought to be the work of the young Albrecht Dürer. Bound in pale blue canvas blocked with a woodcut design in dark blue. Blue endleaves. Brown slipcase. 24.1x14.4cm. 344pp.

About the book

Sebastian Brant's The Ship of Fools is a late-fifteenth-century satirical poem in which a symbolic ship carries a vast company of fools, each representing a different human weakness or social vice. Through moralising humour and vivid examples, Brant attacks greed, vanity, ignorance, bad government, superstition and countless forms of folly. The work became one of the most influential satires of Renaissance Europe.

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