by Margarita de Valois · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401410772
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«El heptamerón» is the collection of seventy-two tales by Margarita de Valois, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (in Spanish).
Following the scheme of Boccaccio's Decameron, a group of travellers surprised by a flood takes refuge in an abbey and passes the time telling stories. The seventy-two tales address love, lust, virtue and vice, and compose a mordant portrait of sixteenth-century customs.
1976 edition in the El Arca de Papel collection, number 77; the work was originally published in 1558 as L'Heptaméron.
For readers interested in French Renaissance classics, short fiction and portraits of sixteenth-century customs.
