More's Letter to Dorp: Remapping the Trivium
1 More's text is cited according to E. F. Rogers' line numbers in The Correspondence of Sir Thomas More (Princeton, I947), ep. IS, pp. 27-74, hereafter cited as Correspondence. In all Latin citations, from whatever source, I have modernized the orthographical treatment of i/j and u/v. All translations here used are my own. More's text has been translated by Marcus Haworth in St. Thomas More: Selected Letters, ed. E. F. Rogers (New Haven, i96i); G. Marc'hadour, St. Thomas More: La Lettre d Dorp. . . (Namur, i962); and M. A. Nauwelaerts et al. in La Correspondance d'Erasme, II (Brussels, I974). For the history of Erasmus' relations with Dorp, see (with some caution) H. De Vocht, Monumenta Humanistica Lovaniensia: Texts and Studies about Louvain Humanists in the First Halfofthe Sixteenth Century (Louvain, I934), esp. pp. I39-I78. For critical commentary see De Vocht; A. Castelli, Note sull' Umanesimo in Inghilterra (Milan, I949), pp. 77-87; P. Mesnard, "Oui l'Abbe Marc'hadour nous introduit dans l'Univers de Thomas More," Moreana, I (i963), 26-35, and "Humanisme et theologie dans la controverse entre Erasme et Dorpius," Filosofia, I4, supp., to fasc. 4 (I963), 885-goo; G. Marc'hadour, "Additions et corrections a l'Univers de Thomas More," Moreana, I (i963), I59-i6i, and Thomas More et la Bible (Paris, I969), pp. I24-I36; M. S. Cooper, O.S.B., "More and the Letter to Martin Dorp," Moreana, 6 (i965), 37-44; R. S. Sylvester, "Thomas More: Humanist in Action," Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Southeastern Institute of Medieval and Renaissance Studies), I (i966), ed. 0. B. Hardison, I25-I37 (rpt. in Essential Articles for the Study of Thomas More, ed. R. S. Sylvester and G. Marc'hardour [Hamden, Ct., I9771, pp. 462-469); A. Prevost, Thomas More et la crise de la pensee europe'enne (Paris, i969), pp. I3I-I4I; M. Fleisher, Radical Reform and Poltical Persuasion in the Life and Writings of Thomas More (Geneva, I973), pp. 7I-I23; S. Camporeale, "Da Lorenzo Valla a Tommaso Moro," in Umanesimo e Teologia tra '4oo e '5oo, Memorie Domenicane, n. s. 4 (Pistoia, I973), 9-i05; H. Holeczek, Humanistische Bibelphilologie als Reformproblem bei Erasmus von Rotterdam, Thomas More, und William Tyndale (Leiden, 1975), pp. 13 8-i65; G. Santinello, "Teologia e linguaggio in Tommaso Moro," Studia Patavina: Rivista di scienze religiose, 24 (I977), 6I7-629; A. de Silva, "Sir Thomas More