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Adagia
Sign in to saveAlso known as Adagiorum Collectanea, Collectiana Adagiorum, Collectanea Adagiorum
thumb|upright|Title page of the 1508 edition, printed by Aldus Manutius, Venice thumbnail|upright|Portrait of Erasmus by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1523 Adagia (singular adagium) is the title of an annotated collection of Greek and Latin proverbs, compiled during the Renaissance by Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus. Erasmus' repository of proverbs is "one of the most monumental ... ever assembled" (Speroni, 1964, p. 1).
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Within Vinony's link graph, Adagia is referenced by 88 other articles, and connects out to Latin, Paris and Greek.
It sits within the topics 1500 books, 15th-century books in Latin and Adages.
Its subject is documented across 12 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Erasmus
- Image
- Erasmus Adagia, Aldine 1508 (Basel Univ Lib).jpg
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- editor
- Erasmus
- publication date
- 1508-00-00
- copyright status
- public domain
- native label
- adagiorum chiliades
- language of work or name
- Neo-Latin
- language used
- Latin
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Commonplace examples from ''Adagia''
- Context
- Between friends all is common
- ''Sileni Alcibiadis'' (The ''Sileni of Alcibiadis'')
- Bidden or unbidden, God is always there
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|upright|Title page of the 1508 edition, printed by Aldus Manutius, Venice thumbnail|upright|Portrait of Erasmus by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1523 Adagia (singular adagium) is the title of an annotated collection of Greek and Latin proverbs, compiled during the Renaissance by Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus. Erasmus' repository of proverbs is "one of the most monumental ... ever assembled" (Speroni, 1964, p. 1).
The first edition, titled Collectanea Adagiorum, was published in Paris in 1500, in a slim quarto of around eight hundred entries. By 1508, after his stay in Italy, Erasmus had expanded the collection (now called Adagiorum chiliades tres or "Three thousands of proverbs") to over 3,000 items, many accompanied by richly annotated commentaries, some of which were brief essays on political and moral topics. The work continued to expand right up to the author's death in 1536 (to a final total of 4,151 entries), confirming the fruit of Erasmus' vast reading in ancient literature.
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