Book/Printed Material Letter to Guillaume Budé, March 4, 1521. Lettre à Guillaume Budé, 4 mars 1521
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Title
- Letter to Guillaume Budé, March 4, 1521.
Other Title
- Lettre à Guillaume Budé, 4 mars 1521
Summary
- François Rabelais (1494?-1553) was a French Renaissance writer remembered for his comic masterpiece, Gargantua and Pantagruel. This letter is the first known text by Rabelais. It was written in 1521, when Rabelais was a young monk at the Franciscan monastery of Fontenay-le-Comte, and deeply immersed in the study of Greek and the humanities. The letter is addressed to Guillaume Budé, a classical scholar whom Rabelais admired. Intended to attract Budé's attention and elicit his encouragement, the letter employs the conventional motifs of classical humanism. Rabelais left the cloister in 1530, studied and later practiced medicine, and published the first part of Gargantua and Pantagruel in 1532. The book is the story of two giants, Gargantua, and his son, Pantagruel, and their many adventures, which Rabelais used to satirize the church hierarchy, lawyers, schools and universities, philosophers, and other aspects of the society in which he lived.
Names
- Rabelais, François, 1494?-1553 Author.
Created / Published
- [place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1521.
Headings
- - France--Pays de la Loire--Fontenay-le-Comte
- - 1521
- - Budé, Guillaume, 1467-1540
- - Correspondence
- - Letters
- - Rabelais, François, 1494?-1553
Notes
- - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
- - Original resource extent: Autograph letter.
- - Original resource at: National Library of France.
- - Content in Ancient Greek (to 1453).
- - Description based on data extracted from World Digital Library, which may be extracted from partner institutions.
Medium
- 1 online resource.
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2021667601
Online Format
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