On marriage
Erasmus, Robert Graves and Matthew Buckley Smith
I’ve just received a 1681 Geneva edition of Erasmus’s Colloquia, a stout small quarto in excellent reading condition.1 The Colloquia, notionally a guide to conversational Latin presented largely in the form of dialogues, is maybe my favourite part of all Erasmus, and it’s also (for the Shakespeare fans out there) the single most Shakespearean book I know…
