Desiderus Erasmus, Dutch humanist and scholar, 1523. Artist: Hans Holbein the Younger

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Desiderus Erasmus, Dutch humanist and scholar, 1523. Erasmus (1497-1543) was probably the greatest scholar of the northern Renaissance. A believer in the superiority of religious practices in earlier times, he was an advocate of reform of the Church. From the Musee du Louvre, Paris.

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