The Heptameron
Marguerite de Navarre
$130.00

Five volume set.

“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.”

The Heptaméron is a collection of 72 short stories written in French by Marguerite de 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 like The Decameron, but at Marguerite’s death it was completed only as far as the second story of the eighth day.