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9780486447636

The Heptameron Selected Tales

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  • ISBN13:

    9780486447636

  • ISBN10:

    0486447634

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2006-05-26
  • Publisher: Dover Publications
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Summary

Like the exuberant storytellers of Boccaccio's Decameronand Chaucer's Canterbury Tales,the ten men and women who narrate the tales of The Heptameronoffer 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. Brimming with murder, adultery, remorse, and revenge, they continue to enthrall readers in the twenty-first century.

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Dover Edition v
1 (I): The misdeeds of the wife of a certain proctor, who had a bishop for her gallant
1(6)
2 (II): The wife of a muleteer had rather death than dishonour
7(2)
3 (III): Of a lustful King of Naples, and how he met with his match
9(5)
4 (IV): Of a young man who attempted the honour of a princess, and the poor success of his adventure
14(6)
5 (V): How two Grey Friars were by one poor woman left in the lurch
20(2)
6 (VIII): Of one who on his own head engrafted horns
22(3)
7 (IX): A relation of a perfect love, and the pitiful end thereof
25(4)
8 (X): Florida, hard pressed by her lover, virtuously resists him, and on his death takes the veil
29(27)
9 (XI): Of a very privy matter
56(1)
10 (XII): A Duke of Florence would have his friend prostitute his sister to him; but in place of love meets with death 57(5)
11 (XIV): A very pleasant piece of cozenage done by my lord Bonnivet 62(5)
12 (XVI): A love persevering and fearless meets with due reward 67(3)
13 (XVII): King Francis shows his courage that it is well approved 70(3)
14 (XVIII): A notable case of a steadfast lover 73(3)
15 (XXI): The steadfast and honourable love of Rolandine, who after many sorrows at last finds happiness 76(15)
16 (XXII): How a wicked monk, by reason of his abominable lust, was at last brought to shame 91(8)
17 (XXIII): How the lust of a Grey Friar made an honest gentleman, his wife, and his child to perish miserably 99(6)
18 (XXV): How a young Prince secretly had pleasaunce of the wife of a sergeant-at-law 105(3)
19 (XXVI): The love of an honourable and chaste woman for a young lord, and the manner of her death 108(11)
20 (XXX): A man takes to wife one who is his own sister and daughter 119(4)
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 123(4)
22 (XXXII): The notable manner in which a gentleman punished his wife whom he had taken in adultery 127(3)
23 (XXXIII): The hypocrisy of a parson, who having got his sister with child concealed it under the cloak of holiness 130(2)
24 (XXXV): Of a rare case of spiritual love, and a good cure for temptation 132(5)
25 (XXXVI): How the president of Grenoble came to make his wife a salad 137(2)
26 (XXXIX): In what manner my lord of Grignaulx exorcised an evil spirit 139(2)
27 (XL): Wherein is given the cause wherefore Rolandine's father made build the castle in the forest 141(2)
28 (XLII): How the virtuousness of a maid endured against all manner of temptation 143(7)
29 (XLIII): Of a woman who was willing to be thought virtuous, but yet had secret pleasure with a man 150(4)
30 (XLV): How a tapestry-maker gave a wench the Innocents, and his pleasant device for deceiving a neighbour who saw it done 154(3)
31 (XLIX): A pleasant case of a gentlewoman that had three lovers at once, and made each to believe himself the only one 157(4)
32 (LII): How an apothecary's prentice gave two gentlemen their breakfast 161(1)
33 (LIII): How a lady by too close concealment was put to shame 162(4)
34 (LV): How a widow sold a horse for a ducat and a cat for ninety and nine 166(2)
35 (LVI): Of a cozening device of an old friar 168(3)
36 (LX): How a man, for putting too great trust in his wife, fell into much misery 171(3)
37 (LXL): Of the shamelessness and impudency of a certain woman who forsook her husband's house to live with a canon 174(4)
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 178(1)
39 (LXVII): How a woman trusted in God amidst the lions 179(2)
40 (LXX): In the which is shown the horrid lust and hatred of a Duchess, and the pitiful death of two lovers 181

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