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When, therefore, the full form, Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, first appears, in the second edition of the Adagia, published by Josse Badius at Paris in 1506, it is an indication that Erasmus, then forty years of age, had found himself. Circumstances had not made it easy for him to find his way.
A few months after all this was accomplished, in December 756, Aistulf, "that follower of the devil," as the pope called him, died. Every state that is nearing dissolution is the prey of civil discord. So it was with the Lombards. Ratchis, who had more than seven years before become a monk, claimed the throne; so did Desiderius, "mildest of men."
Desiderius did not ask "how concluded?" but thought it easy to account for this speech. It could easily be concluded between Topándy and Lorand, as the former was the girl's adopted father: Lorand had only to disclose to him everything about which it had been his melancholy duty to keep silence until the day of the catastrophe, which he was awaiting, had arrived.
His face beamed like that of some young student who was glorying in his first duel. But he could not understand the effect his narration had caused. Topándy's face became suddenly more determined, more serious; he gazed often at Lorand. Once Desiderius too looked up at his brother, who was wiping his tear-stained eyes with his handkerchief. "You are weeping?" inquired Desiderius.
Desiderius thought deep sympathy had so affected the righteous man and continued all the more passionately: "That fellow, who knew it well, and who was acquainted with our family's unfortunate ill-luck, in cold blood led his friend to the eighth coffin, to the cursed coffin with the words 'Lie down there in it!" Sárvölgyi's lips trembled as if he would cry "pity: say nothing more!"
This scorn would soon be wiped away from that beautiful face. "Mesdames," said Desiderius in cold tranquillity. "Beyond paying my respects, I have another reason which made it my duty to come here. I must explain why your solicitor has not returned to-day, and why he will not return for some time." "Great Heavens! No misfortune has befallen him?" cried Madame Bálnokházy in nervous trepidation.
II . For the spirit of early humanism see H. C. Hollway-Calthrop, Petrarch: his Life and Times ; J. H. Robinson and H. W. Rolfe, Petrarch, the First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters, 2d ed. , a selection from Petrarch's letters to Boccaccio and other contemporaries, translated into English, with a valuable introduction; Pierre de Nolhac, Petrarque et l'humanisme, 2d ed., 2 vols. in 1 . Of the antecedents of humanism a convenient summary is presented by Louise Loomis, Mediaeval Hellenism . A popular biography of Erasmus is that of Ephraim Emerton, Desiderius Erasmus ; the Latin Letters of Erasmus are now in course of publication by P. S. Allen; F. M. Nichols, The Epistles of Erasmus, 2 vols.
Tassilo, for example, the Duke of Bavaria, and Desiderius, the King of the Lombards, acted against him upon the bitterest instigations of feminine resentment; each of these princes conceiving himself concerned in a family quarrel, pursued the cause which he had adopted in the most ferocious spirit of revenge, and would undoubtedly have inflicted death upon Charlemagne, had he fallen into their power.
In this square, surrounded by carts and stalls, in the midst of heaps of vegetables, oranges and earthenware, encircled by a crowd of hucksters and peddlers, enclosed by a railing covered with matting and rags, stands the statue of Desiderius Erasmus, the first literary celebrity of Rotterdam.
In 771 Carloman died, and Charlemagne was elected to the vacant throne, to the exclusion of his nephews, whose extreme youth, indeed, made them incapable of wearing the crown in such troubled times. Gilberga, the widow of Carloman, immediately fled, and sought an asylum with Desiderius, the common place of refuge for all who were hostile to the Frankish monarch.
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