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... elements : earth , water , air , and fire , and each exercises his specific activity in his own sphere . A broad picture of the elements is thus unfolded . One of the four devils , whose name is Pantagruel and who represents water ...
... elements : earth , water , air , and fire , and each exercises his specific activity in his own sphere . A broad picture of the elements is thus unfolded . One of the four devils , whose name is Pantagruel and who represents water ...
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... elements ( earth , water , air , and fire ) , each of which had its special rank in the structure of the uni- verse . According to this theory all the elements were subject to a 16 At the time of Rabelais the conviction that the parts ...
... elements ( earth , water , air , and fire ) , each of which had its special rank in the structure of the uni- verse . According to this theory all the elements were subject to a 16 At the time of Rabelais the conviction that the parts ...
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... elements but an animate being in which each part is an organ of the whole . Patrizzi proved in his Panpsychia that everything in the universe is animate , from the stars to the simplest element . This idea was also shared by Cardano ...
... elements but an animate being in which each part is an organ of the whole . Patrizzi proved in his Panpsychia that everything in the universe is animate , from the stars to the simplest element . This idea was also shared by Cardano ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ONE Rabelais in the History of Laughter | 59 |
TWO The Language of the Marketplace in Rabelais | 145 |
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