Das Narrenschiff, an allegory telling of a ship laden with fools and steered by fools setting sail for Narragonia, the “fool’s paradise.” The ship allegory is not sustained; instead Brant presents more than 100 fools representing every contemporary shortcoming, serious and trivial. Criminals, drunkards, ill-behaved priests and lecherous monks, spendthrifts, bribe-taking judges, busybodies, and voluptuous women are included in this unsparing, bitter, sweeping satire. Brant’s aims are the improvement of his fellows and the regeneration of church and empire. The language is popular, the verse rough but vigorous; each chapter is accompanied by a woodcut, many ascribed to Albrecht Dürer; they are beautifully executed but often only loosely connected with the text. Brant’s work was an immediate sensation and was widely translated.