Johann Baptist Fischart freely translates and adapts…

1575 CE

Johann Baptist Fischart freely translates and adapts François Rabelais’ Gargantua in 1575.

A German satirist and humanist writing under the pseudonym Mentzer, Fischart had been educated in the major European centers of learning, receiving a law degree from the University of Basel in 1574.

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Swiss Confederacy, Old (Swiss Confederation) View →

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