De Contemptu Mundi, or otherwise, De Miseria Conditionis Humanae, was translated by our author into English verse; but only portions of it are preserved, viz.
In the printed editions the Confessions are called De Contemptu Mundi, a title that is at once misleading and unsupported by Petrarch's own authority.
Preface to Dialogus de Contemptu Mundi, as the work is called in the Basle editions.
Even if we think of the de contemptu mundi as a mere piece of sophomoric composition, it shows a very great acquisition, both of knowledge and of power, in a lad of twenty.
Now which of these documents, the de contemptu mundi, written at the time, or the Grunnius letter written perhaps thirty years afterward, represents the true Erasmus as he was at the age of twenty?
Precisely as we have explained the account of the monastic life in the De Contemptu Mundi.
There is no doubt that Erasmus' de contemptu mundi gives a perfectly fair ideal picture of the normal monastic liberty and its suitableness for the scholar, but for him this life had also its dangers and its limitations.
The burden of the whole is an impassioned and exalted meditatio mortis based on two themes common enough in mediaeval devotional literature--a De Contemptu Mundi, and a contemplation of the Glories of Paradise.
Pope Innocent, De Contemptu Mundi; and With Goddes owene finger wroght was he, And nat begeten of mannes sperme unclene.
This is one of the passages from Innocent's treatise de Contemptu Mundi, of which I have already spoken in the note to B.
This corresponds to nothing in the French text, but it is quoted from Pope Innocent's treatise, De Contemptu Mundi, lib.
There is nothing answering to it in Trivet, but it is to be found in Pope Innocent's treatise De Contemptu Mundi, lib.
Chaucer's own translation of Pope Innocent's treatise De Contemptu Mundi; see further in the note to B.
He also wrote a treatise, De Contemptu Mundi (on Contempt of the World).
The original is a poem of about three thousand lines, called De Contemptu Mundi, a melancholy satire upon the corruptions of the times.
After having entered the Abbey of Cluny, which at that time was the most wealthy and luxurious monastery in Europe, he devoted his leisure hours to writing his famous poem, De contemptu mundi.
For instance, Pope Innocent the Third was Cardinal Lothario before he became Pope, and he wrote a book called 'De Contemptu Mundi sive de Miseria Humanae Conditionis!
Though they [philosophers] write contemptu gloriae, yet, as Hieron observes, they will put their names to their books.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contemptu" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
