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The Heptameron
ISBN-13:
9780486149424
Veröffentl:
2012
Einband:
EPUB
Seiten:
224
Autor:
Queen of Navarre Marguerite
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
Reflowable EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Ten men and women engage in a storytelling battle of the sexes that abounds in murder, adultery, remorse, and revenge, all set in 16th-century France. Translation by Arthur Machen.
Like the exuberant storytellers of Boccaccio'sDecameron and Chaucer'sCanterbury Tales, the ten men and women who narrate the tales ofThe Heptameron offer captivating glimpses of a vanished world. They have taken refuge in a Pyrenean abbey, where they pass their time in a storytelling battle of the sexes. Ranging from highly romantic to downright bawdy, and from deeply spiritual to profane, these tales form a vivid portrait of life and attitudes during the transition from medieval to modern times in sixteenth century France.
These tales reputedly originated at the royal court of France and are attributed to Marguerite de Navarre, the learned sister of Francis I. Several of the characters attest to the truth of their stories, and indeed, many of the incidents they describe were verified by latter-day scholarship. Real or imagined, the gripping tales ofThe Heptameron—brimming with murder, adultery, remorse, and revenge—continue to enthrall readers in the twenty-first century.
These tales reputedly originated at the royal court of France and are attributed to Marguerite de Navarre, the learned sister of Francis I. Several of the characters attest to the truth of their stories, and indeed, many of the incidents they describe were verified by latter-day scholarship. Real or imagined, the gripping tales ofThe Heptameron—brimming with murder, adultery, remorse, and revenge—continue to enthrall readers in the twenty-first century.
Introduction to the Dover Edition
1 (i): The misdeeds of the wife of a certain proctor, who had a bishop for her gallant
2 (ii): The wife of a muleteer had rather death than dishonour
3 (iii): Of a lustful King of Naples, and how he met with his match
4 (iv): Of a young man who attempted the honour of a princess, and the poor success of his adventure
5 (v): How two Grey Friars were by one poor woman left in the lurch
6 (viii): Of one who on his own head engrafted horns
7 (ix): A relation of a perfect love, and the pitiful end thereof
8 (x): Florida, hard pressed by her lover, virtuously resists him, and on his death takes the veil
9 (xi): Of a very privy matter
10 (xii): A Duke of Florence would have his friend prostitute his sister to him; but in place of love meets with death
11 (xiv): A very pleasant piece of cozenage done by my lord Bonnivet
12 (xvi): A love persevering and fearless meets with due reward
13 (xvii): King Francis shows his courage that it is well approved
14 (xviii): A notable case of a steadfast lover
15 (xxi): The steadfast and honourable love of Rolandine, who after many sorrows at last finds happiness
16 (xxii): How a wicked monk, by reason of his abominable lust, was at last brought to shame
17 (xxiii): How the lust of a Grey Friar made an honest gentleman, his wife, and his child to perish miserably
18 (xxv): How a young Prince secretly had pleasaunce of the wife of a sergeant-at-law
19 (xxvi): The love of an honourable and chaste woman for a young lord, and the manner of her death
20 (xxx): A man takes to wife one who is his own sister and daughter
21 (xxxi): The horrid and abominable lust and murder of a Grey Friar, by reason of which his monastery and the monks in it were burned with fire
22 (xxxii): The notable manner in which a gentleman punished his wife whom he had taken in adultery
23 (xxxiii): The hypocrisy of a parson, who having got his sister with child concealed it under the cloak of holiness
24 (xxxv): Of a rare case of spiritual love, and a good cure for temptation
25 (xxxvi): How the president of Grenoble came to make his wife a salad
26 (xxxix): In what manner my lord of Grignaulx exorcised an evil spirit
27 (xl): Wherein is given the cause wherefore Rolandine's father made build the castle in the forest
28 (xlii): How the virtuousness of a maid endured against all manner of temptation
29 (xliii): Of a woman who was willing to be thought virtuous, but yet had secret pleasure with a man
30 (xlv): How a tapestry-maker gave a wench the Innocents, and his pleasant device for deceiving a neighbour who saw it done
31 (xlix): A pleasant case of a gentlewoman that had three lovers at once, and made each to believe himself the only one
32 (lii): How an apothecary's prentice gave two gentlemen their breakfast
33 (liii): How a lady by too close concealment was put to shame
34 (lv): How a widow sold a horse for a ducat and a cat for ninety and nine
35 (lvi): Of a cozening device of an old friar
36 (lx): How a man, for putting too great trust in his wife, fell into much misery
37 (lxi): Of the shamelessness and impudency of a certain woman who forsook her husband's house to live with a canon
38 (lxvi): A lord and lady sleeping together were mistaken by an old dame for a prothonotary and a servant maid, and were sharply reproved of her
39 (lxvii): How a woman trusted in God amidst the lions
40 (lxx): In the which is shown the horrid lust and hatred of a Duchess, and the pitiful death of two lovers
1 (i): The misdeeds of the wife of a certain proctor, who had a bishop for her gallant
2 (ii): The wife of a muleteer had rather death than dishonour
3 (iii): Of a lustful King of Naples, and how he met with his match
4 (iv): Of a young man who attempted the honour of a princess, and the poor success of his adventure
5 (v): How two Grey Friars were by one poor woman left in the lurch
6 (viii): Of one who on his own head engrafted horns
7 (ix): A relation of a perfect love, and the pitiful end thereof
8 (x): Florida, hard pressed by her lover, virtuously resists him, and on his death takes the veil
9 (xi): Of a very privy matter
10 (xii): A Duke of Florence would have his friend prostitute his sister to him; but in place of love meets with death
11 (xiv): A very pleasant piece of cozenage done by my lord Bonnivet
12 (xvi): A love persevering and fearless meets with due reward
13 (xvii): King Francis shows his courage that it is well approved
14 (xviii): A notable case of a steadfast lover
15 (xxi): The steadfast and honourable love of Rolandine, who after many sorrows at last finds happiness
16 (xxii): How a wicked monk, by reason of his abominable lust, was at last brought to shame
17 (xxiii): How the lust of a Grey Friar made an honest gentleman, his wife, and his child to perish miserably
18 (xxv): How a young Prince secretly had pleasaunce of the wife of a sergeant-at-law
19 (xxvi): The love of an honourable and chaste woman for a young lord, and the manner of her death
20 (xxx): A man takes to wife one who is his own sister and daughter
21 (xxxi): The horrid and abominable lust and murder of a Grey Friar, by reason of which his monastery and the monks in it were burned with fire
22 (xxxii): The notable manner in which a gentleman punished his wife whom he had taken in adultery
23 (xxxiii): The hypocrisy of a parson, who having got his sister with child concealed it under the cloak of holiness
24 (xxxv): Of a rare case of spiritual love, and a good cure for temptation
25 (xxxvi): How the president of Grenoble came to make his wife a salad
26 (xxxix): In what manner my lord of Grignaulx exorcised an evil spirit
27 (xl): Wherein is given the cause wherefore Rolandine's father made build the castle in the forest
28 (xlii): How the virtuousness of a maid endured against all manner of temptation
29 (xliii): Of a woman who was willing to be thought virtuous, but yet had secret pleasure with a man
30 (xlv): How a tapestry-maker gave a wench the Innocents, and his pleasant device for deceiving a neighbour who saw it done
31 (xlix): A pleasant case of a gentlewoman that had three lovers at once, and made each to believe himself the only one
32 (lii): How an apothecary's prentice gave two gentlemen their breakfast
33 (liii): How a lady by too close concealment was put to shame
34 (lv): How a widow sold a horse for a ducat and a cat for ninety and nine
35 (lvi): Of a cozening device of an old friar
36 (lx): How a man, for putting too great trust in his wife, fell into much misery
37 (lxi): Of the shamelessness and impudency of a certain woman who forsook her husband's house to live with a canon
38 (lxvi): A lord and lady sleeping together were mistaken by an old dame for a prothonotary and a servant maid, and were sharply reproved of her
39 (lxvii): How a woman trusted in God amidst the lions
40 (lxx): In the which is shown the horrid lust and hatred of a Duchess, and the pitiful death of two lovers