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He had been vexed about his travelling company, had abstained from conversing with them, and sought consolation in composing poetry. The result was the ode which he called Carmen equestre vel potius alpestre, about the inconveniences of old age, dedicated to his friend William Cop. Erasmus was one of those who early feel old.
Death of Batt: 1502 First stay at Louvain: 1502-4 Translations from the Greek At Paris again Valla's Annotationes on the New Testament Second stay in England: 1505-6 More patrons and friends Departure for Italy: 1506 Carmen Alpestre Circumstances continued to remain unfavourable for Erasmus. 'This year fortune has truly been raging violently against me, he writes in the autumn of 1502.
To his old friend, in addressing whom he always found the most serious accents of his being, he wrote a letter which he meant to be a justification and which was self-contemplation, much deeper and more sincere than the one which, at a momentous turning-point of his life, had drawn from him his Carmen Alpestre.
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