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The Medieval Church · 1494
The Ship of Fools
Das Narrenschiff
Sebastian Brant · 1457–1521
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What it is
A hundred and twelve kinds of folly, each given a woodcut and a verse — the book collector who cannot read, the priest who cannot preach, the man who plans to repent later.
Why it lasted
The bestseller of the incunable age and the founding text of German satire, read across Europe within a decade.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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