The Tales of the Heptameron, volume 1, Illustrated

The Tales of the Heptameron, volume 1, Illustrated

by Queen of Navarre Marguerite
The Tales of the Heptameron, volume 1, Illustrated

The Tales of the Heptameron, volume 1, Illustrated

by Queen of Navarre Marguerite

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With 23 illustrations. According to Wikipedia: "The Heptameron is a collection of 72 short stories written in French by Marguerite of Navarre (1492-1549), published posthumously in 1558. It has the form of a frame narrative and was inspired by The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. It was originally intended to contain one hundred stories covering ten days just as The Decameron does, but at Marguerite’s death it was only completed as far as the second story of the eighth day. Many of the stories deal with love, lust, infidelity and other romantic and sexual matters. One was based on the life of Marguerite de La Rocque, a French noblewoman abandoned, as punishment, with her lover on an island off Quebec... Marguerite de Navarre (French: Marguerite d'Angoulême) (April 11, 1492 – December 21, 1549), also known as Marguerite of Angouleme and Margaret of Navarre, was the queen consort of King Henry II of Navarre. As patron of humanists and reformers, and as an author in her own right, she was an outstanding figure of the French Renaissance. Samuel Putnam called her "The First Modern Woman"."


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ISBN-13: 9781455330881
Publisher: Seltzer Books
Publication date: 12/03/2017
Series: Tales of the Heptameron , #1
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 3 MB
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