Statue of Erasmus near the Collegium Trilingue in Louvain / Photo by Nick ThompsonDesiderius Erasmus (1466?–1536) made big books from little things. A literary lapidary, he compiled proverbs, anecdote…
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July 22, 2014Kathleen Heilfor Patricio Pron I don’t know when, exactly, I began to equate literary translation with the institution of marriage. But at some point I started to think…
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