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Montaigne: Of Cannibals. STUDY. Flashcards. Learn. Write. Spell. Test. PLAY. Match. Gravity. Created by. TessieTea. Terms in this set (37) Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592) Great French essayist and Renaissance humanist; began the essay as a distinct genre or species or writing; Francis Bacon (1597) became the first English essayist. Mastered the essay in exploring subjects as disparate as his.Essays: Amazon.it: Michel De Montaigne, Percival Chubb, John Florio: Libri in altre lingue. Passa al contenuto principale. Iscriviti a Prime Tutte le categorie VAI Ricerca Ciao, Accedi Account e liste Accedi Account e liste Ordini.Montaigne’s most famous essay, “Of Cannibals,” emerges as a radical response to this question when examined in the context of his time’s religious polemic, a context from which the essay borrows much of its imagery. Unlike Protestant controversialists who disparaged Catholic eucharistic rites as barbarous, Montaigne suggests such religious prejudices prove little better than the.