Rabelaisian

In Italy, as in Rabelaisian France, the carnival entered not only elite theatrical performance and engravings but also the printed word.

For although of unexceptionable morality, and addressed virginibus puerisque, the stories and illustrations with which this and others of these collections abound are frequently of a very Rabelaisian character.

The smiths themselves were a grand lot of fellows, full of a robust, and sometimes Rabelaisian sense of humour, and between "heats," they could be most entertaining.