In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
In regione caecorum rex est luscus.
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Erasmus
Born 1466 (or 1469) in Rotterdam, Erasmus was the leading humanist of the Northern Renaissance and a Catholic priest. His Praise of Folly and Greek New Testament shaped both biblical scholarship and the Reformation, but.
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