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Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Volume 1, The by Marguerite of Navarre (1492 - 1549)

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Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Volume 1, The by Marguerite of Navarre (1492 - 1549)

THE HEPTAMERON, first published posthumously in 1558, is divided into seven complete days containing 10 stories each, and an eighth day containing only 2 stories. The stories, many of which deal with love and infidelity, resulted in "accusations of looseness" by critics of the day. The author, Margaret of Navarre (also known as Margaret of Angoulême) became an influential woman in the intellectual and cultural circles of the French Renaissance.From an 1892 essay by the translator George Saintsbury: "In so large a number of stories with so great a variety of subjects, it naturally cannot but be the case that there is a considerable diversity of tone. But that peculiarity at which we have glanced more than once, the combination of voluptuous passion with passionate regret and a mystical devotion, is seldom absent for long together...The question, What is the special virtue of the Heptameron? I have myself little hesitation in answering. There is no book, in prose and of so ea

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  1. 19

    First Day, Tale III

  2. 18

    First Day, Tale IV

  3. 17

    First Day, Tale V

  4. 16

    First Day, Tale VI

  5. 15

    First Day, Tale VII

  6. 14

    Appendix A, Prologue

  7. 13

    Appendix B, Tale I

  8. 12

    Appendix C, Tale IV

  9. 11

    Preface

  10. 10

    Margaret of Angouleme, Queen of Navarre - Part 1

  11. 9

    Margaret of Angouleme, Queen of Navarre - Part 2

  12. 8

    Margaret of Angouleme, Queen of Navarre - Part 3

  13. 7

    Margaret of Angouleme, Queen of Navarre - Part 4

  14. 6

    On the Heptameron - Part 1

  15. 5

    On the Heptameron - Part 2

  16. 4

    Dedications and Preface

  17. 3

    Prologue

  18. 2

    First Day, Tale I

  19. 1

    First Day, Tale II

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THE HEPTAMERON, first published posthumously in 1558, is divided into seven complete days containing 10 stories each, and an eighth day containing only 2 stories. The stories, many of which deal with love and infidelity, resulted in "accusations of looseness" by critics of the day. The author, Margaret of Navarre (also known as Margaret of Angoulême) became an influential woman in the intellectual and cultural circles of the French Renaissance.From an 1892 essay by the translator George Saintsbury: "In so large a number of stories with so great a variety of subjects, it naturally cannot but be the case that there is a considerable diversity of tone. But that peculiarity at which we have glanced more than once, the combination of voluptuous passion with passionate regret and a mystical devotion, is seldom absent for long together...The question, What is the special virtue of the Heptameron? I have myself little hesitation in answering. There is no book, in prose and of so ea

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