The Leighton Library has a 1529 edition of “Antibarbarorum D. Erasmi roterodami, liber unus, quem iuuenis quidem adhuc lusit" by Desiderius Erasmus
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The Leighton Library has a 1529 edition of “Antibarbarorum D. Erasmi roterodami, liber unus, quem iuuenis quidem adhuc lusit" by Dutch philosopher widely considered to have been greatest scholar of northern Renaissance, Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam who died #OnThisDay 12 July 1536. It is said that, by the 1530s, writings of Erasmus accounted for up to 20 percent of all book sales in EuropeHe is credited with coining the adage, "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king."