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    Sebastian Brant (also Brandt) (1457/1458 – 10 May 1521) was a German humanist and satirist. He is best known for his satire Das Narrenschiff (The Ship...
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    Ship of Fools (Modern German: Das Narrenschiff, Latin: Stultifera Navis, original medieval German title: Daß Narrenschyff ad Narragoniam) is a satirical...
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    readers' attention towards the Turks. Brandt, a satirist and author of Das Narrenschiff, also described the meteorite and its fall in the poem "Loose Leaves...
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  • Sebastian Brant (1457–1521) conceived Saint Grobian as the patron saint of coarse manners in his famous poem Das Narrenschiff (1494). Das Narrenschiff describes...
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    The ship of fools (Modern German: Das Narrenschiff, Latin: Stultifera Navis), is an allegory, first appearing in Book VI of Plato's Republic, about a ship...
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  • Norwegian Encyclopedia, the phrase is first documented in Sebastian Brant's Das Narrenschiff (1494), in the form "Die weltt die will betrogen syn". It notes...
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  • the trip. The title was taken from Das Narrenschiff ("The Fool-Ship"), a 15th-century German poem by Sebastian Brant. For many years, the initial publisher...
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  • the Renaissance Sebastian Brant amplified and reworked Plato's text in a satirical book The Ship of Fools (Das Narrenschiff,1494) which was translated...
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    it is tempting to see the painting as a response to Sebastian Brant's Das Narrenschiff or even the illustrations of the first edition of 1493. Another...
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  • Maha Rahtathara, Bhuridat Zatpaung Pyo, Burmese poem Sebastian Brant, Das Narrenschiff ("The Ship of Fools"), much-translated satire, year of publication...
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