Category Archives: Rabelais

Fabrizio Riccardi – Pantagruel

Posted on November 26, 2011 by Swany

Works by Fabrizio Riccardi based on Les Songes Drolatiques.

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Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Swany

Poemas del río Wang: The unbearable mask: “The 120 woodcuts that make up the volume of Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel appeared without almost any text in 1565. But the short and somewhat babbling preface by the printer, Richard Breton … Continue reading →

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François Desprez – The Droll Dreams of Pantagruel (1565)

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Swany

Monser Brains: “Included here are 100 of the 120 woodcuts of various bizarre characters from “Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel” translated into English as “The Droll Dreams of Pantagruel” published in 1565. A detailed article on the woodcuts can be … Continue reading →

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Salvador Dali – Les Songs (Songes) Drolatiques de Pantagruel

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Swany

Monster Brains: Images from Dreams of Pantagruel, a portfolio of lithographs by Salvador Dali (1973) based on Les Songes drolatiques de Pantagruel. Also available as a set on Flickr. Prints are available for sale at the Lockport Street Gallery: In … Continue reading →

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Galerie des rois & reines de France

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Swany

pilllpat (agence eureka)’s photostream: François 1er 58e roi de France, monté sur le Trône en 1515, mort en 1547.

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Rabelais: the ribald scholar

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Swany

Drawing by an unknown 16th-century artist, from “Rabelais: the ribald scholar,” by Alain Frontier (UNESCO Courier, ISSN 00415278, vol. 47 no.11, page 44, Nov 1994).

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History of Literature: Francois Rabelais

Posted on December 4, 2010 by Swany

History of Literature: Includes introduction and brief biography by M.A. Screech, Urquhart/Motteux translation.

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Rabelais’s Carnival: Text, Context, Metatext

Posted on March 21, 2010 by Swany

University of California Press E-Books Collection: Kinser, Samuel. Rabelais’s Carnival: Text, Context, Metatext. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. Full text.

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Les Songes Drolatiques de Pantagruel

Posted on August 14, 2009 by Swany

Listed as spurious in New Rabelais Bibliography [NRB 113 (p. 560): the bulk of the book is made up of woodcuts of grotesque figures. Manifestly pseudo-Rabelaisian.]

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Rabelais astrologer?

Posted on August 14, 2009 by Swany

NRB 94: Almanach pour l’an 1553, calculé sur le Meridional de la noble Cité de Lyon, et sur le climat de royaume de France. Composé par moy François Rabelais, Docteur en Medecine, et Professeur en astrologie. “Despite the fragmentary nature … Continue reading →

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