Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais

Author:Francois Rabelais
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: Penguin Group USA, Inc.
Published: 2008-11-18T05:00:00+00:00

How Rondibilis, the physician, advises Panurge

CHAPTER 31

[Behind Rondibilis probably lies Dr Rondelet, a distinguished physician at Montpellier. Rondibilis advocates the teachings about semen of the Platonico-Hippocratic school which, on this matter, was opposed to Galen. Rabelais draws freely on the Laws of Marriage of his friend Tiraqueau.

For the tale of Cupid, see Lucían, Dialogues of the Gods, 19.

At least one adage of Erasmus is relevant: II, III, XCVII, ‘Venus is cold without Ceres and Bacchus’.

For Socrates, to be a philosopher means ‘to practise dying’. (Plato: Phaedo, 67D–68B). Because a true philosopher strives to liberate his soul from his body in philosophical rapture, philosophy is truly a practising of death, death being conceived as the final separation on Earth of body and soul. For Erasmus and his followers that idea of Socrates is central to the whole of Christianity, conceived as the philosophy of Christ.]

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