Rabelais' monks

If Dante's Comedy is a the medieval world in filigree, then Rabelais' Gargantua & Pantagruel are the Renaissance in a 'bookshell'. Satire, humour, wit and stellar classical erudition, it is also a work of biting social and religious criticism. There are passages where he is closer to Luther than he is to Erasmus, for instance, such as this one taken fro…