Author:Peter Anthony Motteux

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Peter Anthony Motteux (1663–1718)

sister projects: Wikipedia article, Commons gallery, quotes. A Huguenot refugee in London, established a literary reputation by completing Sir Thomas Urquhart's translation of Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel, then Cervantes' Don Quixote.

Works

Translations

• Gargantua
• Pantagruel
• The Third Book (1546)
• The Fourth Book (1552)
• The Fifth Book (1564) (there are questions over whether and to what degree Rabelais is the author of the Fifth Book)

Works about Motteux

• “Motteux, Peter Anthony,” in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885-1900) in 63 vols.

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