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The grandfather of Charles Darwin, Eramus Darwin, lived in Derby even though his practice was in Lichfield, Staffordshire. But the 19th-century manual, Curious Pleasures: A Gentleman's Collection Of Beastliness by the Reverend Dr Eramus St Jude, was also supposedly considered an essential reference book by doctors and professors attempting to understand the depravities of man. In particular, Trimalchio's endeavor to dress in garments that he considers elegant and refined proves at first to be funny to the freeborn Encolpius and his dinner companions, who see this behavior as exemplifying Trimalchio's bad taste: in his eramus lautitiis, cum ipse Trimalchio ad symphoniam allatus est positusque inter cervicalia minutissima expressit imprudentibus risum. |
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Desiderius Erasmus - Dutch humanist and theologian who was the leading Renaissance scholar of northern Europe; although his criticisms of the Roman Catholic Church led to the Reformation, he opposed violence and condemned Martin Luther (1466-1536)