Note 986 — Chapter I · MORALITY.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
His closest counterpart is Merlinus Coccajus (Teofilo Folengo), whose Opus Maccaronicorum Rabelais certainly knew, and quotes more than once (Pantagruel, l. ii. ch. 1. and ch. 7, at the end). It is possible that Merlinus Coccajus may have given the impulse which resulted in Pantagruel and Gargantua.