Rabelais' 5th Book of Pantagruel

I found it really interesting that in Rabelais' Gargantua and Pangagruel (1st published around 1532), within the 5th Book of Pantagruel, there are a couple of chapters on a Chess Dance.  In one chapter the moves of the pieces are explained, in another a couple of games are gone through.  One begins with a Queen's Pawn Opening.

If you like naughtiness, theology, philosophy, medicine, wine, scatological humor, and/or tripe on the Twelfth Night, check him out! 

My review

Wow! I have only read parts of Rabelais' work. It must be time to revisit the Gutenberg Project.

Not a more perfect time to read that old farty Erasmian wind bag! 

Did you by chance read the story of Renard the Fox who together with the Lion dressed that old woman's wound in the forest?  Ugh Rabelais was an old lecher! hahaha