In this work, a Venetian noble named Pococurante criticizes Homer's Iliad, the works of Milton, and everything else in his house. One character is sentenced to death at an auto-da-fe, but is revealed to have survived due to a loose hangman's noose. The protagonist and Cacambo take diamonds on a convoy of red sheep, but only one survives the trek from Eldorado, and the Oreillon tribe seeks to eat Jesuit meat. The protagonist eventually overcomes the ideas of both the Manichean pessimsist Martin and a man who believes "All is for the best in the 
In this work, a Venetian noble named Pococurante criticizes Homer's Iliad, the works of Milton, and everything else in his house. One character is sentenced to death at an auto-da-fe, but is revealed to have survived due to a loose hangman's noose. The protagonist and Cacambo take diamonds on a convoy of red sheep, but only one survives the trek from Eldorado, and the Oreillon tribe seeks to eat Jesuit meat. The protagonist eventually overcomes the ideas of both the Manichean pessimsist Martin and a man who believes "All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds," the syphilitic philosopher Pangloss. For 10 points, name this novelette about the son of a Westphalian baron who seeks to rejoin his lover Cunegonde, written by Voltaire.
In this work, a Venetian noble named Pococurante criticizes Homer's Iliad, the works of Milton, and everything else in his house.
{Candide} or {Optimism}