If you 've ever described anything as gargantuan , you 've referenced the hero of french renaissance author fran ois rabelais 's 16th century series of novels entitled the life of gargantua and pantagruel , a satirical story about a giant and his son .
Writers like petrarch and giovanni boccaccio in italy , franois rabelais in france , and william shakespeare in england produced works that emphasized the intricacies of human character .
意大利的佩脱拉克和薄伽丘,法国的拉伯雷以及英国的莎士比亚等一批作家写出的作品强调人性的复杂性。
" Writers like petrarch and giovanni boccaccio in italy , franois rabelais in france , and william shakespeare in england produced works that emphasized the intricacies of human character . "