Editing Erasmus (section)

===In literature and media===
* Renaissance composer [[Benedictus Appenzeller]] wrote a five-part motet ''Plangite Pierides (Lament on the Death of Erasmus)''<ref>{{cite web |title=D-Hs MS Hans. III, 4 (III) - DIAMM |url=https://www.diamm.ac.uk/sources/1804/#/ |website=www.diamm.ac.uk}}</ref> over a [[cantus firmus]] ''Cecidit corona capitis nostri'' ([[Book of Lamentations|Lam.]] 5:16), score available Open Source.<ref>{{cite web |title=Plangite Pierides (Benedictus Appenzeller) - ChoralWiki |url=https://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Plangite_Pierides_(Benedictus_Appenzeller) |website=www.cpdl.org |language=en}}</ref>  Appenzeller was part of the court of dowager Queen [[Mary of Hungary]], whose invitation in 1535 of haven in Brabant Erasmus had contingently accepted the year before his death.  It has been recorded several times: by [[Konrad Ruhland]] with ''Capella Antiqua München'' and by [[Jordi Savall]] with ''La Capella Reial De Catalunya''
** The Savall recording ''Erasmus - Praise of Folly'' is a program of 16th century music, notably [[la folia]], and recitation of famous excerpts from Erasmus, Luther, etc. and released in multiple European languages. 
* Erasmus is a character in the comic Act III, scene 1, of the Elizabethan play [[Sir_Thomas_More_(play)#Act_III|Sir Thomas More]], though not in the passages [[Sir_Thomas_More_(play)#Evidence_for_Shakespeare's_contribution|attributed to Shakespeare]].{{refn|group=note|However, Shakespeare's soliloqy introduction to this scene against aggrandizement gives the comedy a serious intent.}}
** In the play, More is just about to be made Lord Chancellor; visiting famous poet Erasmus is meeting him for the first time; judge More plays a merry trick ("I’ll see if great Erasmus can distinguish merit and outward ceremony") by disguising a rough servant as himself; he pretends to be the porter and speaks Latin to Erasmus outside; Erasmus launches into a Latin speech directed to the fake More, but repeatedly questions that this could, in fact, be More; More reveals himself; they bond over mirth and love of poetry:<blockquote>'''More''': Thus you see,<br>My loving learned friends, how far respect<br>Waits often on the ceremonious train<br>Of base illiterate wealth, whilst men of schools,<br>Shrouded in poverty, are counted fools.<br>Pardon, thou reverent German, I have mixed<br>So slight a jest to the fair entertainment<br>Of thy most worthy self;<br>...<br>'''Erasmus:''' Study should be the saddest time of life.<br>The rest a sport exempt from thought of strife.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Shakespeare |first1=William |title=Sir Thomas More: Act 3, Scene 1 |url=https://www.playshakespeare.com/sir-thomas-more/scenes/1195-act-iii-scene-1 |website=www.playshakespeare.com |language=en-gb}}</ref></blockquote>
* Actor [[Ken Bones]] portrays Erasmus in [[David Starkey]]'s 2009 documentary series ''[[Henry VIII: The Mind of a Tyrant]]''