TY  - EJOUR
A1  - La Charité, Claude
TI  - Rabelais as polymath, naturalist, and astrologer, according to Antoine Le Roy’s Elogia Rabelæsina (BnF, LAT 8704)
T2  - L’Année rabelaisienne 2020, n° 4. varia
JO  - L’Année rabelaisienne (ISSN 2554-9111), 4, 2020
DO  - 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-10343-1.p.0085
SN  - 2554-9111
SP  - 85
EP  - 100
AB  - In his Elogia Rabelæsina, a Neo-Latin commentary written in the mid-seventeenth century, which remained unpublished and is kept at the BnF (LAT 8704), Antoine Le Roy demonstrates the diversity and profusion of scholarly knowledge deployed by Rabelais by presenting him as a polymath and an omniscient scholar. He verges on exaggeration, even imagination, but he is also often accurate when he addresses the work—rather than the life—of this French humanist writer, and especially his mastery of natural history and astrology.
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/06/17
DP  - Classiques Garnier
PB  - Classiques Garnier
CY  - Paris
KW  - Neo-Latin, seventeenth century, medicine, botany, Pliny the Elder, almanacs, calendars, Thomas Aquinas, Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola
LA  - fre
UR  - https://classiques-garnier.com/l-annee-rabelaisienne-2020-n-4-varia-rabelais-as-polymath-naturalist-and-astrologer-according-to-antoine-le-roy-s-elogia-rabelaesina-bnf-lat-8704.html
Y2  - 2024/07/18
ER  -