It would have been easier in Italy than anywhere else.

Italian, from its flexibility and its analogy to French, would have lent itself admirably to the purpose; the instrument was ready, but the hand was not forthcoming.

Neither is there any Spanish translation, a fact which can be more easily understood.

The Inquisition would have been a far more serious opponent than the Paris' Sorbonne, and no one ventured on the experiment.
Yet Rabelais forces comparison with Cervantes, whose precursor he was in reality, though the two books and the two minds are very different.

They have only one point in common, their attack and ridicule of the romances of chivalry and of the wildly improbable adventures of knight-errants.