Heptameron. Navarre M.

Margarita Navarre (1492–1549)-French princess, one of the first women writers of France, patroness of arts and sciences, poetess, prose writer, religious mystic, author of philosophical dialogues, poems and plays. However, for many centuries it was glorified by Heptameron - a classic of literature of the Renaissance, a collection of short stories inspired by Bokkaccio inspired by Decameron. Here, too, ten people, temporarily cut off from the world, entertain themselves and each other, telling the edifying, funny, cruel, frank stories - stories halfway between parables and gossip, a story about love, betrayal, honor and deceit.

Talking about their characters, about their lowest or highest sincere aspirations, the storytellers are several alter of the Ego of the Navarre, as well as the figures written off from her friends and relatives - involuntarily partially reveal the soul themselves, but Together with them we comprehend all the complexity of human nature and we.