François Rabelais

François Rabelais (c. 1494–1553) was a Franciscan and Benedictine monk, a physician, a Greek scholar, and the most explosively original writer of the French Renaissance. He studied medicine at Montpellier, practiced at Lyon, and traveled with the French diplomatic corps to Rome—all while producing the five books of Gargantua and Pantagruel that would scandalize and delight Europe. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Gargantua and Pantagruel.