Note to players: Author and type of work required. In one of these works, its author establishes presumption as a disease and claims that despite being “the most wretched and frail of all creatures,” man is the proudest. The author of these works describes the importance of reason over hearsay by recounting Pyrrhus of Epirus’s invasion of Italy in one of these works that claims it is customary to refer to other cultures as “barbarous.” In one of these works, the author wrote about a Brazilian tribe’s practice of (*) roasting and eating prisoners. The author of one of these works espouses skepticism by embracing the maxim “what do I know?” “Of Cannibals” is included in a collection of these works by this author whose name is borrowed from his language’s word for “attempt” or “try.” For 10 points, “An Apology for Raymond Sebond” is a work in what literary genre by a French author? ■END■
ANSWER: essays by Michel de Montaigne
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