L'HEPTAMERON DES NOUVELLES DE LA TRES HAUTE ET TRES ILLUSTRE PRINCESSE MARGUERITE D'ANGOULEME REINE DE NAVARRE.

MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE (1492 1549),

Verlag: Paris. Auguste Eudes. 1880, 1880

Beschreibung

4 volumes stout octavo 8 x 5 1/2 inches, VERY HANDSOMELY LEATHER BOUND in half blue morocco with floral gilt ornaments and M with a crown in compartments. Binding by Smeers. Illustrated throughout by Freudenberg and others. A very fine set of these French tales by Marguerite of Angouleme or Margaret of Navarre, the princess of France, Queen of Navarre, and Duchess of Alençon and Berry. She was married to Henry II of Navarre. Her brother became King of France, as Francis I, and the two siblings were responsible for the celebrated intellectual and cultural court and salons of their day in France. The Heptameron is a collection of 72 short stories written in French and published posthumously in 1558. It has the form of a frame narrative and was inspired by The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 5701

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Titel: L'HEPTAMERON DES NOUVELLES DE LA TRES HAUTE ...

Verlag: Paris. Auguste Eudes. 1880

Erscheinungsdatum: 1880

Einband: Hardcover