Margaret of Na·varre (n -vär , nä-) 1492-1549. Queen of Navarre (1527-1549) who wrote the Heptameron, an unfinished collection of stories modeled on Boccaccio's Decameron. |
Margaret of Navarre
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(Biographies) Also called Margaret of Angoulême 1492-1549, queen of Navarre (1544-49) by marriage to Henry II of Navarre; sister of Francis I of France. She was a poet, a patron of humanism, and author of the Heptaméron (1558)
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