This novel imitates its era’s formal prose in a letter that provides a character with a long list of authors to study for a thorough education. This novel parodies the astrological predictions of almanacs in a section titled for a character’s “prognostication.” This novel’s narrator is led to cities with stinking plagues by a peasant who plants cabbages in a scene whose “world” titles a chapter of Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis. Excrement is passed off as “Hibernian saffron” by a coward in this novel who often weighs the merits of marriage and causes a flock of sheep to mindlessly leap off a ship, dragging Dindenault (-5[1])to his death. In this novel, a son of Lord Grandgousier who requires the milk of 17,913 cows starts a flood by urinating from atop Notre-Dame. For 10 points, name this satirical set of novels about two giants by François Rabelais. ■END■ (10[1])