POMPEN, AURELIUS. - The English Versions of the Ship of Fools. A Contibution to the History of the Early French Renaissance in England.

. (1925). Reprint, 1967. xiv,345pp. 4 plates in b/w. Index. Cloth.*The Ship of Fools is one of the most famous books ever written. It satirizes all the follies and weaknesses of man. Countless edtions and numerous translations of this work, first printed in Basel in 1498, showed how wide and lasting was its influence. The work forms a singularly instructive document for the intellectual and moral history of the period..