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Pantagrueline Prognostication

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  • François Rabelais
    In François Rabelais: La vie inestimable du grand Gargantua

    Rabelais followed Pantagruel with the Pantagrueline Prognostication, a parody published in 1533 of the almanacs, astrological predictions that exercised a growing hold on the Renaissance mind. In 1534 Rabelais left the Hôtel-Dieu to travel to Rome with the bishop of Paris, Jean du Bellay. He returned to Lyon in May…

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