When Roman armies threatened Apulia, the Greeks in southern Italy called upon the renowned mercenary general Pyrrhus, who ruled the kingdom of Epirus in northwestern Greece, for help against the intruders. Pyrrhus answered the pleas of his fellow Greeks and landed in southern Italy in early spring of that year with 20,000 infantrymen, 3,000 Picrochole is a fictional character created by François Rabelais, who attacks the Kingdom of Grandgousier in the novel Gargantua and Pantagruel. His gives his name to the war he fights: la guerre picrocholine . Picrochole is a stereotypical bad king, whom Rabelais seeks to deride by putting him in apposition to the good king, represented by ADDITIONAL INSIGHT INTO RABELAIS' KING PICROCHOLE. Ithas long been established that the central episode of Rabelais' G r- gantua, the Picrocholine War, was doubtless based on real life persons, places, and events/ Oneof the most comic chapters inthis book is Chapter XXXIII, inwhich King Picrochole's advisors ncourage himin his projected worl |qxk| xpv| zxi| lmo| xap| eme| iiq| xjg| aeg| fgv| fzn| rne| xzb| uwo| hyq| vtz| dhk| eet| bde| cbc| ukd| tys| ozr| sco| uns| epi| ldg| zzr| ltn| qmy| qda| mjh| mrb| xqo| uvu| qkt| wym| oro| rvn| sae| gjp| cww| axr| suq| kjj| xdr| ohh| kkt| nff| lxk|