François Rabelais
François Rabelais (; c. 1494 – 9 April 1553) was a major French Renaissance writer, doctor, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar. He has historically been regarded as a writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, bawdy jokes and songs. His best known work is Gargantua and Pantagruel.
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François Rabelais - Works
... Livre ("The fourth book", 1552) Le Cinquiesme Livre (A fifth book, whose attribution to Rabelais is debated) ...
... Livre ("The fourth book", 1552) Le Cinquiesme Livre (A fifth book, whose attribution to Rabelais is debated) ...
Thelemites - Historical Antecedents - François Rabelais
... François Rabelais was a Franciscan and later a Benedictine monk of the 16th century ... Most critics today agree that Rabelais wrote from a Christian humanist perspective, as Crowley biographer Lawrence Sutin says when he contrasts the French author's ... Sutin writes that Rabelais was no precursor of Thelema, with his beliefs containing elements of Stoicism and Christian kindness ...
... François Rabelais was a Franciscan and later a Benedictine monk of the 16th century ... Most critics today agree that Rabelais wrote from a Christian humanist perspective, as Crowley biographer Lawrence Sutin says when he contrasts the French author's ... Sutin writes that Rabelais was no precursor of Thelema, with his beliefs containing elements of Stoicism and Christian kindness ...
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“I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)