In that novel by this author, the protagonist meets an elderly daughter of Pope Urban X before fleeing to Jesuit-controlled Paraguay with Cacambo and meeting the Manichaean Martin, whom this author based on Pierre Bayle.
In a story by this author, a Cretan descendant of Pasiphae is almost circumcised after he says, "Allah illah allah" to a Circassian prostitute in Constantinople during a trip around the world. In a novel by this author, a chicken dinner sparks a debate between an Egyptian and an Indian over worshiping bulls and fish. Characters debate a law against eating griffin and maintain that only women can catch basilisks in that novel, whose protagonist is saved from execution when a parrot carries a peach stuck to a writing tablet to King (*) Moabdar. In another novel by this author, Virgil is deemed superior to Homer by the Venetian senator Pococurante. In that novel by this author, the protagonist meets an elderly daughter of Pope Urban X before fleeing to Jesuit-controlled Paraguay with Cacambo and meeting the Manichaean Martin, whom this author based on Pierre Bayle. For 10 points, name this author of Zadig and Candide.
In a story by this author, a Cretan descendant of Pasiphae is almost circumcised after he says, "Allah illah allah" to a Circassian prostitute in Constantinople during a trip around the world.
Voltaire [or François-Marie Arouet]