by François Rabelais · Giulio Einaudi Editore · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788806131890
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«Gargantua e Pantagruèle» is the satirical novel by François Rabelais, published by Giulio Einaudi Editore in paperback (880 pages, in Italian).
The work narrates the adventures of two giants, Gargantua and Pantagruel, father and son, in a world of banquets, battles and excess. With grotesque and erudite humour, Rabelais satirises the education, religion and institutions of his time, and defends the ideals of Renaissance humanism.
Series: Gargantua and Pantagruel (1-5). Translation and edition by Mario Bonfantini. Einaudi Tascabili collection. Original title: La vie de Gargantua et de Pantagruel.
For readers of European classics, satire and erudite humour, and for those who want a critical and festive vision of the Renaissance.
François Rabelais was a French writer who has been called the first great French prose author. A humanist of the French Renaissance and Greek scholar, he attracted opposition from both Protestant theologian John Calvin and from the hierarchy of the Catholic Church. Though in his day he was best known as a physician, scholar, diplomat, and Catholic priest, later he became better known as a satirist for his depictions of the grotesque, and for his larger-than-life characters.
