Erasmus "constantly and consistently" opposed the mooted idea of a Christian "universal monarch" with an over-extended empire who could supposedly defeat the Ottoman forces: such universalism did not "hold any promise of generating less conflict than the existing political plurality;" instead, advocat...
One month after writing to Aldus, in December of 1507, Erasmus arrived in Venice in January 1508 in time to see the accomplishment of the printing of his Euripidean plays. Erasmus rose to become one of the greatest Greek linguists of the entire reformation era. He spent much of his time...