Tales from the Heptameron (Athlone Renaissance Library)

Queen Marguerite de Navarre. Selected & edited by H. P. Clive

ISBN 10: 0485128012 / ISBN 13: 9780485128017

Published by Athlone Press, London, 1970

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PAPERBACK. 184 pages. Clean & tight. Front end paper has a written name. No other inscriptions. Dispatched ROYAL MAIL FIRST CLASS with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard. ref F-STW.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tales from the Heptameron (Athlone Renaissance Library)
• Publisher: Athlone Press, London
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0485128012
• ISBN 13: 9780485128017
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

In the early 1500s five men and five women find themselves trapped by floods and compelled to take refuge in an abbey high in the Pyrenees. When told they must wait days for a bridge to be repaired, they are inspired - by recalling Boccaccio's Decameron - to pass the time in a cultured manner by each telling a story every day. The stories, however, soon degenerate into a verbal battle between the sexes, as the characters weave tales of corrupt friars, adulterous noblemen and deceitful wives. From the cynical Saffredent to the young idealist Dagoucin or the moderate Parlamente - believed to express De Navarre's own views - The Heptameron provides a fascinating insight into the minds and passions of the nobility of sixteenth century France.