“A work such as Daedalus made" A note on the epistle-preface to the Testament de Cuspidius

The epistle-preface to the edition of the apocryphal works Le Testament de Cuspidius and Le Contrat de vente is a crafted and obscure text in which Rabelais carefully placed each allusion, counting on the widely read discernment of its recipient Amaury Bouchard. This article returns to some of the shared readings (Poliziano, Budé, Erasmus) that were the foundation of the relationship between the two learned legal specialists.