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1483-14941534-15521553, Apr 9
a major French Renaissance writer, doctor, Renaissance humanist, monk and Greek scholar. He has historically been regarded as a writer of fantasy, satire, the grotesque, bawdy jokes and songs. His best known work is Gargantua and Pantagruel. Because of his literary power and historical importance, Western literary critics considered him one of the great writers of world literature and among the creators of modern European writing.
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01/17/1536-Francois Rabelais absolved of apostasy by Pope Paul III 
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Bawdreaminy: Bawdy misbehavior. Used by Dampit, in Thomas Middleton's A TRICK TO CATCH THE OLD ONE (1608) . Like Thomas...
Bennet: (1) An old stalk of grass, left in late winter and early spring; eaten then by cattle, or the seeds by bird...
By-blow: A side stroke. Hence other meanings grew: (1) a calamity as a side effect of the main action, as in the sta...
Contrist: To make sad. French contrister; Latin com (with intensive force) + tristare, to sadden; tristis, sad. Contr...
Curkle: To call as does a quail. An echoic word. Thomas Urquhart in his translation (1693) of Francois Rabelais me...
Extispice: Divination -- foretelling events, predicting the future -- using the entrails, usually plucked from a fowl....
Flagon: A large bottle for holding wine or inferior liquors; especially a metal one (carried by pilgrims before sco...
Gastromancy: Divination -- foretelling events, predicting the future -- by using (1) rumbles of the belly a sort of "fat...
Gigant: The early form of giant, 10th into the 17th century. Via Latin gigantem, from Greek gigas, giganto-. This f...
Growtnoll: A blockhead; a 'great noddle.' Also groutnoll, grouthead, growthed, and more. Used from the 16th century; T...
Infaust: Unlucky, ill-omened. See faust. A fairly common word, 17th into 19th (Edward Bulwer-Lytton; James Russell ...
Kam: Awry, crooked. From the Celtic; Welsh cam, crooked; hence (also in English) cam, perverse, obstinate. Shake...
Legem pone: Cash down; ready payment. These are the first two (Latin) words of the fifth section of PSALM 1 19, which o...
Letating: Making glad. Latin laetare, to rejoice, make glad; laetus, cheerful. Peter Anthony Motteux in his translati...
Martel: (1) A hammer. Also martews, marteaulx, marteaux. After the 15th century, the word was used especially of a ...
Ninnybroth: Coffee. A 17th and 18th century term. Ninny, a simpleton, is probably a shortening of an innocent. From it,...
Nippitate: A fine ale, or other good liquor; hence, as an adjective, of prime quality. Also with Latin or Italian endi...
Nuncheon: A slight refreshment of liquor, originally taken in the afternoon; then it moved ahead and became equivalen...
Obeliscolychny: A light-house; light-bearer. Greek obeliskos, a small spit (whence also obelisk) + lychnion, lamp-stand. Ac...
Orison: A prayer. From Old French oreisun, orison (French oraison) ; Latin orationem, whence also oration. Common i...
Pantagruelism: 'A sort of high spirits worked up in despite of accidents -- ready to drink too, if you will'. Thus Francoi...
Pillicock: (1) The penis. Pill and cock were used separately in this sense; pill also was figurative for testicle. The...
Quiddity: (1) The essence of a thing. Formed with the ending -ity from quid (Latin, what), used also in English, mean...
Rhyparography: The painting of mean or sordid subjects. From Greek rhyparos, filthy. Rhyparography, in Smith's DICTIONARY ...
Roger: From the name came various other uses. (1) A begging vagabond claiming to be a poor scholar from Oxford or ...
 Mentions (3)
Eloi Johanneau
...annotations of works by authors such as Pliny the Elder, Francois Rabelais and Montaigne.
Triboulet
...XII and Francis I of France. He appears in Book 3 of Francois Rabelais' Pantagrueline chronicles. He appears in Victor...
Thomas Urquhart
...and translator, most famous for his translation of Francois Rabelais. Urquhart was born to an old landholding family in...
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Francois Rabelais1483-14941534
 
15521553, Apr 9

Sir Thomas More1478, Feb 71502
 
15351535, Jul 6
 an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist. He was a...
Lewys Daronunknown1495
 
1539unknown
  a Welsh-language professional poet from the Ll?n area of Gwynedd, Wales. Although not considered...
Francisco Alvares14651515
 
15391536~1541
 a Portuguese missionary and explorer. In 1515 he traveled to Ethiopia as part of the Portuguese e...
David Edwardesunknown1530
 
1539unknown
 an English anatomist. Edwardes was educated first at Oxford and afterwards at Cambridge. He took ...
Nicolaus Copernicus1473, Feb 191503
 
15431543, May 24
 a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the...
John Palsgrave1485 ca1513
 
15451554
 a priest of Henry VIII of England's court. He is known as a tutor in the royal household, and as ...
King Henry VIII1491, Jun 281509
 
15471547, Jan 28
  King of England from 1509 until his death and Supreme Head of the Church of England from 1536 to...
Edward Hall14971518
 
15471547
 an English lawyer, Member of Parliament, and historian, best known for his The Union of the Tw...
Bernard Etxepare1475 ca1512
 
1549unknown
 a Basque writer of the 16th century, most famous for a collection of poems titled Linguæ Vasconu...
Francisco Xerez14951514
 
15491565 ca
 a Spanish explorer-turned-historian, the personal secretary of conquistador Francisco Pizarro. He...
Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca1490 ca1520
 
15491557 ca
 a Spanish explorer of the New World, and one of four survivors of the 1527 Narváez expedition. D...
Peter Ashtonunknown1540
 
 
1549unknown
 a translator. Ashton translated into English, in 1546, the Turcicarum rerum Commentarius of Paulu...
Eoghan Carrach O Siadhailunknown1500
 
1550unknown
 an Gaelic-Irish poet. Eoghan Carrach was a member of the Ó Siadhail family of Tír Chonaill (now...
Richard Sherry1506 ca1522
 
15501555+
 an English schoolteacher and author. He was born about 1506 in the neighbourhood of London. In 15...
William Lamb [1]1493 ca1537
 
 
15501550
 a Scottish cleric, lawyer, and author. William Lamb wrote Ane Resonyng of ane Scottis and Ingl...
Fearghus O Fearghailunknown1550
 
 
1550unknown
 an Irish scribe, fl. c. 1550. Fearghus mac Rudhraighe Ó Fearghail was a member of one of the thr...
Francis Xavier1506, Apr 71534
 
15521552, Dec 3
 a Navarrese Roman Catholic missionary, born in Javier (Xavier in Navarro-Aragonese), Kingdom of N...
Erasmus Reinhold1511, Oct 221536
 
15531553, feb 19
 a German astronomer and mathematician, considered to be the most influential astronomical pedagog...
Ignatius of Loyola1491, Oct 231508
 
15551556, Jul 31
 a Spanish priest and theologian, who founded the religious order called the Society of Jesus (Jes...
Miles Huggardeunknown1533
 
1557unknown
 an English religious pamphleteer and opponent of the Protestant Reformation. He has been describe...
Nicholas Brighamunknown1550
 
15581558
 a Latin scholar and antiquarian, who gave up literature to practise in the law courts, and who fl...
Louis Maigretunknown1530
 
1559unknown
 the author of the Tretté de la Grammaire française, which was published in 1550. This was the f...
Jean de Beaugueunknown1540
 
1559unknown
 a French soldier who served in Scotland in the 1540s during the war of the Rough Wooing. He wrote...
Robert Burrantunknown1540
 
1559unknown
 an English translator. He authored works such as an edition of Sir David Lindsays Tragical Death ...
Joachim du Bellay1522 ca1547
 
15591560, Jan 1
 a French poet, critic, and a member of the Pléiade. In 1548 appeared the Art poétique of Thomas...
John Angelunknown1550
 
1559unknown
 a chaplain to King Philip and Queen Mary I, is said to have been a 'person of singular zeal and l...
Anthony Aschamunknown1550
 
1559unknown
 an English astrologer who wrote various treatises about astronomical and astrological matters. As...
William Bavandunknown1550
 
1559unknown
 an English writer. Bavand, having been educated at Oxford, became a student in the Middle Temple,...
Robert Brahamunknown1550
 
1559unknown
 an English editor. In 1555, he edited The Auncient Historic and onely trewe and syncere Cronicle ...
John Brettunknown1550
 
1559unknown
 a messenger for Mary I of England when she tried to have the Marian exiles returned to England. V...
John Gwynnethunknown1550
 
1559unknown
 a Welsh Catholic divine and musician. He was educated at Oxford. In due course he was ordained pr...
Tadhg O Cobhthaighunknown1550
 
1559unknown
 an Irish poet. Ó Cobhthaigh was a member of a hereditary bardic family based in what is now Coun...
Sabina Welserinunknown1550
 
1559unknown
 the author of a German cookbook, Das Kochbuch der Sabina Welserin, which she dated 1553 in her br...
Philip Melanchthon1497, Feb 161514
 
15601560, Apr 19
 a German reformer, collaborator with Martin Luther, the first systematic theologian of the Protes...
Alan Balatineunknown1530
 
1560unknown
 a supposed historian mentioned by Edward Hall in the list of the English writers from whose works...
Michelangelo1475, Mar 61490
 
15641564, Feb 18
 an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted a...
Lewys Morgannwgunknown1520
 
1565unknown
 a Welsh language poet from Morgannwg, south Wales. He lived at St. Bride's Major Lewys was one of...
Suleiman I1494, Nov 61520
 
15661566, Sep 7
  the tenth and longest-reigning Sultan and Caliph (Sunni Islam) of the Ottoman Empire/Caliphate, ...
Michel de Nostradamus1503, Dec 141521
 
15661566, Jul 2
 a French apothecary and reputed seer who published collections of prophecies that have since beco...
Philibert de l'Orme1514 ca1540
 
15671570, Jan 8
 a French architect, one of the great masters of the French Renaissance; also wrote two books on a...
Benvenuto Cellini1500, Nov 31519
 
15691571, Feb 13
 an Italian goldsmith, sculptor, draftsman, soldier, musician, and artist who also wrote a famous ...
Giorgio Vasari1511, Jul 301530
 
15691574, Jun 27
 an Italian painter, architect, writer and historian, most famous today for his Lives of the Most ...
Jeronimo de Vivarunknown1540
 
1569unknown
 a Spanish historian of the early conquest and settlement of the Kingdom of Chile, and author of C...
William Baldwinunknown1547
 
1569unknown
 an English author. From the West Country, England, Baldwin studied logic and philosophy at Oxford...
John Phillipunknown1550
 
1569unknown
 an English poet and dramatist of the Elizabethan era. He is known for his play The Commodye of Pa...
Aonghus Fionn O Dalaighunknown1520
 
1570unknown
 an Irish poet. Thought to have been born in County Meath, Aonghus Fionn was the head of the branc...
John Knox1513 ca1546
 
15721572, Nov 24
 a Scottish clergyman, theologian, and writer who was a leader of the Protestant Reformation and i...
Donald Monrounknown1526
 
1574unknown
 a Scottish clergyman, who wrote an early and historically valuable description of the Hebrides an...
Jean Bullant15151537
 
15741578, Oct 13
 a French architect and sculptor who built the tombs of Anne de Montmorency, Grand Connétable of ...
George Buchanan1506, Feb1529
 
15821582, Sep 28
  a Scottish historian and humanist scholar. According to historian Keith Brown, Buchanan was "the...
John Bellendenunknown1533
 
1587unknown
 a Scottish writer of the 16th century. At the request of James V he translated Hector Boece's His...
Francois Hotman1524, Aug 231542
 
15891590, Feb 12
 a French Protestant lawyer and writer, associated with the legal humanists and with the monarchom...
Morus Dwyfechunknown1520
 
1590unknown
 a Welsh-language poet. There is very little information available concerning the details of his l...
Michel de Montaigne1533, Feb 281546
 
15921592, Sep 13
 one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the es...
John Dee1527, Jul 131546
 
16051609 ca
 an English mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, occult philosopher, imperialist, and adviser to...
George Silverunknown1550
 
1629unknown
 a gentleman of England during the late 16th and early 17th centuries, who is known for his writin...
Anthony Jenkinson15291550
 
 
1661610/1611
 one of the first Britons to explore Muscovy and present day Russia. Jenkinson was a traveller and...
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