Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Preface to the New Paperback Edition ix
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Abbreviations xv
7. INTRODUCTION. Self-Portrait in Pen and Ink 1
8. CHAPTER ONE. ‘A better portrait of Erasmus will his writings show’: Fashioning the Figure 27
9. CHAPTER TWO. The In(de)scribable Aura of the Scholar-Saint in His Study: Erasmus’s Life and Letters of Saint Jerome 55
10. CHAPTER THREE. Inventing Rudolph Agricola: Recovery and Transmission of the De inventione dialectica 83
11. CHAPTER FOUR. Recovered Manuscripts and Second Editions: Staging the Book with the Castigatores 99
12. CHAPTER FIVE. Reasoning Abundantly: Erasmus, Agricola, and Copia 129
13. CHAPTER SIX. Concentric Circles: Confected Correspondence and the Opus epistolarum Erasmi 147
14. CONCLUSION. ‘The name of Erasmus will never perish’ 175
15. Appendices 191
16. Notes 207
17. Index 279