Hircan is one of the characters of the Heptameron and also one of the narrators. He is married to Parlamente. Many critics believe that this character is based on either the author's first husband or her second husband.

Parlamente is one of the main female characters and narrators in the Heptameron. Most critics believe that this character is based on the author herself.

Queen Marguerite de Navarre

Queen Marguerite de Navarre was a towering figure of the French Renaissance: a stateswoman, author, religious reformer and confidant of kings and grandees such as Leonardo Da Vinci. Her enduring work is the unfinished Tales of The Heptameron which captures all of the exhuberance and chaos of European life as it emerged from the long shadow of the Middle Ages. ]]> Saturday, 21 May 2011 10:11:16 -0300 http://www.heptameron.info/navarre.html

Heptameron Summary

The Heptameron is a classic collection of short stories. The framing device is that a group of stranded travellers decides to pass the time by telling each other stories on successive days. The stories are grouped by days and each day's stories has a specific theme chosen by the narrators. In her prologue to the Heptameron the author says that she has modeled her work after the famous Decameron by Boccaccio but that unlike the Decameron the characters and events in the Heptameron are based on real people and incidents.