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The Heptameron of the Tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, Volume 4

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THE HEPTAMERON (here Volume 4 of 5), first published posthumously in 1558, is divided into seven complete days containing 10 stories each, and an eighth day containing only 2 stories. The stories, many of which deal with love and infidelity, resulted in "accusations of looseness" by critics of the day. The author, Margaret of Navarre (also known as Margaret of Angoulême) became an influential woman in the intellectual and cultural circles of the French Renaissance.

From an 1892 essay by the translator George Saintsbury: "In so large a number of stories with so great a variety of subjects, it naturally cannot but be the case that there is a considerable diversity of tone. But that peculiarity at which we have glanced more than once, the combination of voluptuous passion with passionate regret and a mystical devotion, is seldom absent for long together...The question, What is the special virtue of the Heptameron? I have myself little hesitation in answering. There is no book, in prose and of so early a date, which shows to me the characteristic of the time as it influenced the two great literary nations of Europe so distinctly as this book of Margaret of Angoulême…" - Summary by adapted from Wikipedia and excerpted from the text by lubee930) (3 hr 51 min)

Chapters

Fourth Day, Tale XXXI

13:25

Read by MaryAnn

Fourth Day, Tale XXXII

13:52

Read by Lynne T

Fourth Day, Tale XXXIII

8:57

Read by KHand

Fourth Day, Tale XXXIV

10:56

Read by Lynne T

Fourth Day, Tale XXXV

16:26

Read by Lynne T

Fourth Day, Tale XXXVI

9:30

Read by Mary J

Fourth Day, Tale XXXVII

8:21

Read by KarenCecilia

Fourth Day, Tale XXXVIII

5:57

Read by Kristin G.

Fourth Day, Tale XXXIX

5:18

Read by Kristin G.

Fourth Day, Tale XL

15:14

Read by Kristin G.

Fifth Day, Tale XLI

9:51

Read by Kristin G.

Fifth Day, Tale XLII

18:38

Read by Mary J

Fifth Day, Tale XLIII

11:09

Read by Mary J

Fifth Day, Tale XLIV

18:28

Read by Mary J

Fifth Day, Tale XLV

10:25

Read by Pamela Nagami

Fifth Day, Tale XLVI

14:52

Read by Lynne T

Fifth Day, Tale XLVII

7:49

Read by Mary J

Fifth Day, Tale XLVIII

6:13

Read by Pamela Nagami

Fifth Day, Tale XLIX

11:20

Read by Mary J

Fifth Day, Tale L

9:21

Read by Lynne T

Appendix to Volume 4

5:51

Read by Mary J