[70] This is inferred from a commendatory letter of Bartolomeo Cavalcanti prefixed to this fourth (1580) edition.

[71] For editions and translations, see Louis Berthé de Besaucèle, J.-B. Giraldi (thesis at the University of Aix-en-Provence, Paris, 1920), pp. 109, 255, 258; for the French translator, Gabriel Chappuys, see p. 261.

[72] See above, [p. 198].

[73] For the Gorgian figures, see MRP and Croll’s introduction to his edition of Euphues.

[74] Samuel Lee Wolff, The Greek Romances in Elizabethan Prose Fiction (New York, Columbia University Press, 1912).

[75] Op. cit., pp. 173 seq. The quotation is at p. 177.

[76] H. Brown, Rabelais in English Literature (Harvard Press, 1933), p. 19.

[77] Cf. Budé, Chapter I, for Renaissance complacency.

[78] Above, Chapter II.

[79] J. Plattard, François Rabelais (Paris, 1932), p. 194.