The Officina of Joannes Ravisius Textor (c.1493-1522), published in 1520, has an important place in the many miscellanies Rabelais drew up. Two lists in particular depend primarily on Textor's book: the list of the sixty-two giants in chapter 1 of Pantagruel, and the list of the nine heroes who died of joy in chapter 10 of Gargantua. But Rabelais entirely transforms the meaning of Textor's erudite material by transposing it into a fictional context.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques