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Rabelais
French writer and priest. After apparently studying law, he took holy orders as a Franciscan, but later, because of a dispute, removed to a Benedictine house. In 1530 he left the Benedictines to study medicine, a profession he would follow the rest of his life. He became a significant humanist scholar, publishing translations of Hippocrates and Galen. His fame rests on the five comic novels (one of doubtful authenticity) known collectively as Gargantua and Pantagruel, incl. the masterpieces Pantagruel (1532) and Gargantua (1534) as well as Le tiers livre (1546; "The Third Book"), his most profound work. These works display a delight in words, a mastery of storytelling, and deep humanist learning in a mosaic of scholarly, literary, and scientific parody that is unlike any previous work in French. They were banned by civil and church authorities for their satirical content and earthy humor, but were nevertheless read throughout Europe. Throughout his career, Rabelais owed his freedom to the protection of powerful patrons.
Saba
Island (pop., 1990: 1,100) of the Netherlands Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. It lies 16 mi (26 km) northwest of St. Eustatius, with which it forms the Lesser Antilles. It has an area of 5 sq mi (13 sq km) and is the peak of an extinct volcano, Mt. Scenery. It was settled by the Dutch in 1632, but its inaccessibility and ruggedness prevented it from achieving economic importance and it was often a buccaneers' stronghold. The economy depends heavily on tourism.
Seneca
Roman philosopher, statesman, and playwright. Born in Spain, he was trained as an orator and began a career in politics and law in Rome c.AD 31. While banished to Corsica for adultery (41-49), he wrote the philosophical treatises Consolationes. He later became tutor to the future emperor Nero, and from 54 to 62 was a leading intellectual figure in Rome. An adherent of Stoicism, he wrote other philosophical works incl. the Epistilae morales, a collection of essays on moral problems. He also left a series of verse tragedies marked by violence and bloodshed, incl. Thyestes, Hercules, and Medea. His plays influenced the development of Elizabethan drama during the Renaissance, notably W. Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and J. Webster's Duchess of Malfi.
N. Amer. Indian people of the Iroquoian linguistic group, the largest nation of the Iroquois Confederacy, who lived in what is now W New York and E Ohio. Families linked by maternal kinship lived together in longhouses. Each community had a council of adult males, which guided the village chief. In the autumn small parties would leave the villages for the annual hunt, returning about midwinter; spring was the fishing season. Seneca women cultivated corn and other vegetables. Warfare with other Indian nations was frequent. In the Amer. Revolution the Seneca were British allies, resulting in the destruction of their villages by Gen. John Sullivan in 1779. ...
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