Desiderius Erasmus - Hater of Hunting.

Desiderius Erasmus was born in Rotterdam on 28th of October 1466 and he died on the 12th of July 1536. He is also known as Erasmus of Rotterdam.

        

        He was the author of "praise of folly" and the "handbook of a christian knight"(Neither of which I have read or intend to read).
        His main interests were Christian Philosophy and Renaissance Humanism.
        Desiderius also influenced some pretty important people Lord Chancellor Sir Thomas More and Martin Luther to name just a few.( not the Martin Luther (King) we all know, this Martin Luther was a german priest and an iconic figure of the protestant reformation).
        After researching this man, I found it very hard to beleive that this well respected and highly educated person could say something as uneducated as the following:

"They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and the baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them"

Right im going to break this quote down into three sections to get my point across.

"They take unbeleivable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn"  The hunting horn is used in orchestras as in instrument and is also refered to as the Furst-pless-horn. It was also once used by the composer Bach. Its original use was to give out clear signals over the noise of the hunt.

"Baying of the hounds"  A pack of hounds will bay to alert the other dogs in the pack and their Master to the fact that they have found their prey. I would also presume that it is a tactic imbedded deep in the dogs genes to bay as an attempt to strike fear into their prey causing it to slip up or make a mistake.



"Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them" No matter what is wrong with your sence of smell, dogs dung is dogs dung. No one in their right mind will ever tell you it smells as sweet as cinnamon. Dogs dung only smells like one thing S***.