TY - BOOK AU - Brant,Sebastian AU - Jamieson,T.H. AU - Barclay,Alexander TI - The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 AV - PT PY - 2006/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - German poetry -- Translations into English KW - English poetry -- Translations from German N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Fools_(satire); Release date is 2006-12-23; Produced by Frank van Drogen, Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries); Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Ship of Fools, Volume 1" by Sebastian Brant is a satirical allegory in German verse published in 1494. This illustrated work presents 112 brief satires attacking the weaknesses and vices of its time through the popular ship of fools trope. Speaking through the voice of the fool, Brant could freely criticize church and society in pre-Reformation Europe. The book became wildly popular, spawning numerous authorized and unauthorized editions across Europe and translations into Latin, French, and English. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20179 ER -