Literary Portraits
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Nothing eluded his curiosity : an ex})ert in law and theology, he acquired so deep an insight into medical science as set him above all his contemporaries. He became as ready as Pantagruel himself to discuss the insoluble problems of magic, alchemy, geomancy, and j)hilosophy. Pie plumbed ' the true Well and ' Abyss of Encyclopedic learning. ' But above all, he devoted himself to the study of Greek. He mastered the many authors whose works he was destined to quote with so fantastic an erudition;... nor was his task' so simple as it might seem. He had to fight, not only with the scarcity of books and manuscripts, but with the bitterly declared prejudice of the age. Greek, in fact, was the forbidden tongue, the plain mark of heresy, and the controversy raged most bitterly during the years spent by Rabelais among the Grey Friars.
' Time was, ' said Erasmus, ' when he was a heretic, ' who dissented from the Gospels or the Articles of ' Faith. Now whatever is displeasing or unintelligible ' to the abbots is heresy.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Nothing eluded his curiosity : an ex})ert in law and theology, he acquired so deep an insight into medical science as set him above all his contemporaries. He became as ready as Pantagruel himself to discuss the insoluble problems of magic, alchemy, geomancy, and j)hilosophy. Pie plumbed ' the true Well and ' Abyss of Encyclopedic learning. ' But above all, he devoted himself to the study of Greek. He mastered the many authors whose works he was destined to quote with so fantastic an erudition;... nor was his task' so simple as it might seem. He had to fight, not only with the scarcity of books and manuscripts, but with the bitterly declared prejudice of the age. Greek, in fact, was the forbidden tongue, the plain mark of heresy, and the controversy raged most bitterly during the years spent by Rabelais among the Grey Friars.
' Time was, ' said Erasmus, ' when he was a heretic, ' who dissented from the Gospels or the Articles of ' Faith. Now whatever is displeasing or unintelligible ' to the abbots is heresy.
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