U.S.A.: Penguin Classics, 1971. Some edgewear and creasing of spine and covers, light age toning of pages and some highlighted passages, otherwise still an acceptable reading copy. Mass Market Paperback. Good.

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Betty Radice read classics at Oxford, then married and, in the intervals of bringing up a family, tutored in classics, philosophy and English. She became joint editor of the Penguin Classics in 1964. As well as editing the translation of Livy’s The War with Hannibal she translated Livy’s Rome and Italy , Pliny’s Letters, The Letters of Abelard and Heloise and Erasmus’s Praise of Folly , and also wrote the introduction to Horace’s Complete Odes and Epodes , all for the Penguin Classics. She also edited Edward Gibbon’s Memoirs of My Life for the Penguin English Library, and edited and annotated her translation of the younger Pliny’s works for the Loeb Library of Classics and translated from Renaissance Latin, Greek and Italian for the Officina Bodoni of Verona. She collaborated as a translator in the Collected Works of Erasmus, and was the author of the Penguin Reference Book Who’s Who in the Ancient World . Betty Radice was an honorary fellow of St Hilda’s College, Oxford, and a vice-president of the Classical Association. Betty Radice died in 1985.

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Bookseller: Turtle Creek Books (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 095032
Title: Praise of Folly (Penguin Classics)
Author: Erasmus, Desiderius
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Good
ISBN 10: 0140442405
ISBN 13: 9780140442403
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Place of Publication: U.S.A.
Date Published: 1971
Bookseller catalogs: .Philosophy - Philosophy and Ethics;

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