Note 772 — Chapter VI · THE DESCRIPTION OF NATIONS AND CITIES.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
Satirical lists of cities are frequently met with later, e.g. Macaroneide, Phantas. ii. For France, Rabelais, who knew the Macaroneide, is the chief source of all the jests and malicious allusions of this local sort.