Abstract
The author examines the epistolary exchange between Desiderius Erasmus and Guillaume Budé from 1516 to 1519 in the context of Budé’s De Asse et partibus eius and Erasmus’s Adagia. The two humanists argued about the proper style of intellectual exchange and the proper audience for their works. Budé believed that men like himself and Erasmus should concentrate only on subjects that are too difficult for average scholars, while Erasmus wanted his works to be accessible to the entire learned world. The difference of opinion reveals two radically different views of the style, content, purpose, and audience of humanist scholarship in the early sixteenth century.
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