[HEGENDORFF, Cristoph]. ERASMUS, Desiderius.

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.Fascinating sammelband of two vanishingly scarce editions of works on the moral education and upbringing of children, both with contemporary French marginalia: the first the extremely rare Troyes edition of a moral guide to youth by the German reformer Christoph Hegendorff (1500-40), a lawyer, pedagogist and great admirer of Erasmus, first published 1529; the second an even rarer Lyon edition of Erasmus s De civilitate morum puerilium, first published 1530. It is generally considered to be the first work addressed directly to a child, as opposed to being about children. . . .. . . Erasmus wrote De civilitate after his move to Freiburg from Basel in 1529. It is addressed to Henry of Burgundy, the eleven-year-old son of Adolph, Prince of Beere (1489-1540), to whose house Erasmus was a frequent visitor, and whose elder son Maximilien Erasmus had advised on his scientific education. Erasmus addresses the importance of wearing modest clothing and keeping respectable company, on appropriate behaviour in church, and the benefits of conviviality and play, but also having a quiet study room. There follow Latin poems and epigrams on the nativity and youth of Christ, some by Erasmus, and two of which memorialise the educational programme of Erasmus s close friend John Colet (1467-1519), espoused by St. Paul s School in London and based on Erasmian ideals, which Colet had re-founded in 1512. .. . . ..Hegendorff was a devoted admirer of Erasmus and begins his work by comparing Erasmus to

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