Ship of Fools

About “Ship of Fools”

Ship of Fools is a satirical allegory written in German verse by Sebastian Brant, a humanist and theologian. It was published in 1494 in Basel, Switzerland. The work uses the ship of fools trope to critique human folly and societal behavior. It became the most well-known version of this theme and was widely translated and circulated. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)