Today, the new academic year started in Leuven. By a historical coincidence, Erasmus wrote on this day 500 years ago to the professor of Latin at his Trilingual College (Collegium Trilingue) in the same city, his close friend Conrad Goclenius (ca. 1490-1539) from Mengeringhausen (today in the German state of Hessen). Erasmus touches on some …
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Raf Van Rooy 