François Rabelais Thomas Urquhart Henry Morley doc The Life of Gargantua and the Heroic Deeds of Pantagruel: From the French of Rabelais (Classic Reprint)

Francois Rabelais, bom in or before the year 1495, was the son of a rich innkeeper, who kept The Lamprey, at: Chinon, in the Touraine. The district about Chinon, familiar to Rabelais, was familiar also to Gargantua and PantagrueL Rabelais was partly educated by the Benedictines at Seville, from among whom he passed to the Convent of La Basmette, and he joined afterwards the Order of the Franciscans at the Abbey of Fontenay-le-C omte. He was an eager worker, in whom the new life of the time stirred busily, who fastened upon the revived Greek studies with the fresh appetite of those who made the monks exclaim :B eware of the Greeks, lest you become a heretic, and he had, as Erasmus had, a scholars sympathy with the best hopes for man. As he grew in knowledge he grew also in wisdom; for his wit, his learning, and his kindliness had depths in them of the true wisdom that helps the world. Leaders of thought became his fastest friends. He saw from within the decay of the Religious Orders, that had been useful and honourable in their first intention; and he gasuch offence to the brethren, at Fontenay-le-C omte, that he had to be rescued from the prison of his abbey by one of his strong friends from outside, the magistrate Tiraqueau, who was in authority at Fontenay. A bout the year 1524, Rabelais passed, with the permission of Pope Clement Vn., into the Order of the Benedictines. Geoffrey d Estissac, an old comrade of his at La Basmette, having become Bishop of Maillezais, gave him the title of Canon Regular in that small town of Poitou. The same bishop, having released him from seclusion in the monastery, took Rabelais into his own house as secretary and companion.(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology. 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