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Fabrizio Riccardi – Pantagruel

Swany — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 04:36:08 +0000

Works by Fabrizio Riccardi based on Les Songes Drolatiques.

Tiers livre des faictz et dictz Heroïques du noble Pantagruel

Swany — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 06:52:05 +0000

Les Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes:
Auteur : Rabelais, François
Titre : Tiers livre des faictz et dictz heroïques du noble Pantagruel
Imprimeur : Wechel, Chrétien
Libraire : Wechel, Chrétien
Date : 1546
Format : 4°
Collation : 184 f. ; italique, romain

Titre long: Tiers livre des faictz et dictz Heroïques du noble Pantagruel. Composez par M. Franç. Rabelais docteur en Medicine, & Calloïer des Isles Hieres. L’aucteur susdict supplie les Lecteurs benevoles, soy reserver a rire au soixante & dixhuytiesme livre.

Adresse typographique : A Paris, Par Chrestien Wechel, en la rue sainct Jacques a l’escu de Basle : et en la rue sainct Jehan de Beauvoys au Cheval volant. M.D.XLVI. Avec privilege du Roy, pour six ans.
Langue : Français
Notes : La première édition du Tiers livre. Ce livre est condamné dès l’année suivante par la faculté de Théologie de Paris (voir Index de l’université de Paris, Sherbrooke et Genève, 1985, p. 382-383, n° 465 et p. 489).

François Desprez – The Droll Dreams of Pantagruel (1565)

Swany — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 06:39:36 +0000

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 found at Poemas del rio Wang. Additional information regarding the artworks can be found at BibliOdyssey. The Pantagruel woodcuts were previously mentioned on Monster Brains five years ago.”

Salvador Dali – Les Songs (Songes) Drolatiques de Pantagruel

Swany — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 05:54:43 +0000

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 1973, Dali published 25 lithographs that were taken from gouaches + felt pencil on illustrations. The edition was published by Carpentier. These lithographs are signed by Dali and are from suites from the edition 250 printed on Japon paper. The sheet size is 76 x 54 cm with an image size of 65 x 48 cm. No names have been assigned the work (as can be imagined), and they are designated using the alphabetical notation of Field.

Available for sale are: 1) The complete suite of the Les Songs (Songes) Drolatiques de Pantagruel, text, justification, and portfolio case; 2) Separate individual lithographs that come from a different suite.

Translating Rabelais: Sterne, Motteux, and the Culture of Politeness

Swany — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:16:14 +0000

Translation and Literature: Article available for rent.

Rabelais in English Literature

Swany — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 05:32:25 +0000

Google Books: Rabelais in English Literature, Huntington Brown, Harvard University Press, 1933

Sterne’s use of the Motteux-Ozell “Rabelais”

Swany — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 05:25:04 +0000

Notes & Queries, February 1978. “The present record confines itself to a lising of Sterne’s burrowings from the Motteux-Ozell translation of Rabelais. On page four of some leaves inserted before the title page to volume IV Ferrers remarks, with some asperity, that ‘Sterne has made ample use of Ozell’s translation of Rabelais, but little of the Original.’ Note: Sterne’s library contained two editions of the Motteux-Ozell translations.

History of Literature: Francois Rabelais

Swany — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 01:12:31 +0000

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

Cotgrave’s 1611 French/English Dictionary

Swany — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 21:06:16 +0000

Play by Mail: Greg Lindahl: Assembled from two scans in the French National Library by Greg Lindahl. Search for a particular French word.

French Renaissance Prose: Rabelais and Montaigne

Swany — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 15:37:17 +0000

Encyclopedia of Literature (J. Rank Org): Survey of translations of Rabelais.

“Urquhart’s rendering is rich, inaccurate, at times barely comprehensible…

“That of W. F. Smith, an example of what has been called the Victorian Tudor style… a highly literal, archaizing version, as well as being a well-annotated work of scholarship.…

“J. M. Cohen recasts the text in acceptable modern English…

“Another American translator, J. Le Clercq, produced a modernized Rabelais for a private edition, a somewhat cavalier version.…

“More important than any of these is the fully annotated translation of the Complete Works by the 16th-c. scholar Donald M. Frame…

“The other recent American translation of Rabelais, by Burton Raffel, is less accurate in detail; there are quite frequent misreadings, potentially obscure allusions are dropped, and explanatory or decorative phrases are added…”