Congratulations to Peter Bietenholz and Tom Deutscher, whose magisterial three-volume Contemporaries of Erasmus (1985-1987) has just been reprinted by the University of Toronto Press in a single volume - without any editorial changes. Between the covers you will find biographical information about more than 1,900 people mentioned in the correspondence and other writings of Erasmus. It amounts to a biographical dictionary of the Renaissance and Reformation, and now that you can get all three volumes in one softcover tome for less than the price of a single volume in hardcover, you really have no excuses for not buying it.