The Tales of the Heptameron, Vol. 5 (of 5)
by King of Navarre consort of Henry II Queen Marguerite
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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 exp...
Chapters (60)
- THE TALES OF THE HEPTAMERON OF Margaret, Queen of Navarre
- Newly Translated into English from the Authentic Text OF M. LE ROUX DE LINCY WITH AN ESSAY UPON THE HEPTAMERON BY GEORGE SAINTSBURY, M.A. Also the Original Seventy-three Full Page Engravings Designed by S. FREUDENBERG And One Hundred and Fifty Head and Tail Pieces By DUNKER IN FIVE VOLUMES
- VOLUME THE FIFTH
- LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY OF ENGLISH BIBLIOPHILISTS MDCCCXCIV
- [Margaret, Queen of Navarre, from a crayon drawing by Clouet, preserved at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris]
- List of Illustrations
- DETAILED CONTENTS OF VOLUME V.
- SIXTH DAY.
- PROLOGUE.
- [The Duke of Urbino sending the Maiden to Prison for carrying Messages between his Son and his Sweetheart]
- TALE LI.
- [The Gentleman and his Friend annoyed by The Smell of that which they Thought was Sugar]
- TALE LII.
- [The Lord des Cheriots flying from the Prince’s Servant]
- TALE LIII.
- [The Lady watching the Shadow Faces Kissing]
- TALE LIV.
- [The Servant selling the Horse with the Cat]
- TALE LV.
- [The Grey Friar introducing his Comrade to the Lady and her Daughter]
- TALE LVI.
- [The English Lord seizing the Lady’s Glove]
- TALE LVII.
- [The Gentleman Mocked by the Ladies When Returning From The False Tryst]
- TALE LVIII.
- [The Lady discovering her Husband with the Waiting-woman]
- TALE LIX.
- [The Chanter of Blois delivering his Mistress from the Grave]
- TALE LX.
- SEVENTH DAY.
- PROLOGUE.
- [The Lady returning to her Lover, the Canon of Autun]
- TALE LXI.
- [The Gentleman’s Spur catching in the Sheet]
- TALE LXII.
- [The King asking the Young Lord to join his Banquet]
- TALE LXIII.
- [The Lady Swooning in the Arms of the Gentleman of Valencia who had become a Monk]
- TALE LXIV.
- [The Old Woman startled by the Waking of the Soldier]
- TALE LXV.
- [The Old Serving-woman explaining her Mistake to the Duke and Duchess of Vendôme]
- TALE LXVI.
- [The Wife Reading to her Husband on the Desert Island]
- TALE LXVII.
- [The Apothecary’s Wife giving the Dose of Cantharides to her Husband]
- TALE LXVIII.
- [The Wife discovering her Husband in the Hood of their Serving-maid]
- TALE LXIX.
- [The Gentleman Killing Himself on the Death of his Mistress]
- TALE LXX.
- EIGHTH DAY.
- PROLOGUE.
- [The Saddler’s Wife Cured by the sight of her Husband Caressing the Serving-maid]
- TALE LXXI.
- [The Monk Conversing with the Nun while Shrouding a Dead Body]
- TALE LXXII.
- APPENDIX.
- THE SUPPOSED NARRATORS OF THE HEPTAMERON TALES.
- BIBLIOGRAPHY.
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