| Note: | J02 |
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| Object Name: | Epigrammata of Erasmus and Utopia of Thomas More | |
| Creation Date: | 1518 | |
| Culture: | Mexican Colonial | |
| Location: | Mexico | |
| Repository: | Benson Latin American Collection, University of Texas, Austin | |
| Image source: | Courtesy Benson Latin American Collection, General Libraries, University of Texas at Austin | |
| Personal copy with annotations of Bishop Juan de Zumarraga The Harrv Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin has a copy of a 1518 combined edition of Erasmus's Epigrammata and Thomas More's Utopia. This is the front cover of the book that belonged to Bishop Zumarraga and his marginal annotations demonstrate his humanistic thought. Juan de Zumarraga was a promoter of the ideas of the famous humanist Erasmus of Rotterdam. Erasmus criticized the strictness of scholasticism and exalted instead the ancient philosophers like Plato and Pythagoras. Like Erasmus, Zumarraga supported the unlimited diffusion of the Bible and recognized the value of supporting charity. Erasmian theorists influenced the Protestant Reformation, were also very critical of the immoral behavior of the Catholic hierarchy during this period. Zumarraga's Mexican publications, Doctrina Breve (1544), and Doctrina Cristiana (1545), clearly demonstrate the influence of Erasmian thought. Zumarraga was clearly familiar with Erasmus's Paraclesis and the Enchiridion. | ||
