It contains such chapters as "The oration of Master Janotus de Bragmardo" and "Shrovetide's outward parts anatomized."  
Its initial prologue recalls Plato's Symposium, about Alcibiades, and follows that with the author's address to the reader, ending with the words "Because to laugh is proper to the man."  It contains such chapters as "The oration of Master Janotus de Bragmardo" and "Shrovetide's outward parts anatomized."  The first book tells of how the Thelemite monks live, while the fourth book begins with a voyage to Cathay to the Oracle of the Holy Bottle.  It features such characters as Friar John, Ulric Gallet, Pichrochole, and Badebec.  Partially published under the pseudonym Alcofribas Nasier, FTP, name this 16th-century collection of five novels about Panurge and the two title characters, written by Francois Rabelais.
Its initial prologue recalls Plato's Symposium, about Alcibiades, and follows that with the author's address to the reader, ending with the words "Because to laugh is proper to the man."  
Gargantua and Pantagruel