Les Angeli Politiani Opera (Lyon, S. Gryphe, 1533) et ce que d’iceulx Rabelais a desrobé pour son Gargantua

In Gargantua, Rabelais explicitly mentions Ange Politien on two occasions: in the prologue, where the narrator accuses him of plagiarism, and in chapter twenty-four, while the eponymous hero recites verses from his poem Rusticus. This explicit evocation of a contemporary is rare enough in Rabelais to reveal a significant debt to the Florentine humanist. This is because for Rabelais, Politien, whose Opera he published in 1533 with Sébastien Gryphe, is a true master of humanism.