Bussy features translated passages from the plays Agamemnon and Hercules Oetaeus of Seneca, plus the Moralia of Plutarch, the Aeneid and Georgics of Virgil, and the Adagia of Erasmus.
It has been claimed the origins of the movement emanate from the teachings of the Cambridge University professor and intellectual Desiderius Erasmus.
The codex was available to Erasmus for his translation of the New Testament in Basel, but he never used it.
On this, he quoted Desiderius Erasmus: "In the land of the blind, a one-eyed man is king."
His surname Erasmus is the same name of Desiderius Erasmus, a Dutch humanist who up and until this day is highly respected in Rotterdam, the city of his new club Feyenoord.
In the late 1990s, the lines were named after two historic Rotterdam citizens, the Erasmus Line (North - South) after Desiderius Erasmus and the Caland Line (East - West) after Pieter Caland.
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Ludwig von Pastor has shown that Pope Julius II (1503-1513) was not illiterate, although he is poetically referred to as such by Desiderius Erasmus.
The Collectio Camerariana collection of letters (now held in the Staatsbibliothek München) includes his correspondence from 1621 as well as several letters from Philipp Melanchthon, Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli, Jakob Micyllus, Desiderius Erasmus and the poet Georg Fabricius, mostly written to his grandfather Joachim—these form an important source for the Protestant Reformation and the Counter-Reformation.
More early approaches of real education were promoted by the humanists Desiderius Erasmus, Georgius Agricola, Thomas More and Juan Luis Vives.
The Faculty of Theology has a long list of renowned alumni, among them Desiderius Erasmus, Daniel Ciobotea, Josef Frings, Georg Gänswein, Romano Guardini, Karl Lehmann, Franz Anton Staudenmaier, Robert Zollitsch, and recently-elected Pope Francis.
Copia: Foundations of the Abundant Style, a 1512 rhetorical guidebook by Desiderius Erasmus