Properties
Narrative motif
dream reveals to girl death of her lover, favor with royalty induced by magic, murder by sympathetic magic, wife cures self of catarrh by calling to husband fondling maid at bedside, death from broken heart, woman dies on having secret love exposed, death from excessive joy, disguised mistress identified by chalk marks left on back by lover, clandestine lover identified by scratches left on face by lady, recognition of wife's ring in friend's possession informs husband of her unfaithfulness, identification through broken ring, suitor's sincerity tested by seven years' banishment, suitor tested by apparent threats to his person, test of fidelity through offering suspected assassin opportunity to commit the murder, lover's fidelity tested by going to bed with mistress and only kissing, lover's fidelity tested by making love to maid, lover's fidelity tested by substituting maid in mistress's bed at assignation, foolish youth in love with ugly old mistress, widow refuses second marriage so her brother cannot kill a second husband, don't play tricks on Gascons, lady answers queen so straightforwardly she gets light punishment, wife reforms wayward husband, clever laughter and response of wife stops husband from fondling maid, sleeping soldier thought to be recumbent statue in chapel, husband takes back faithless wife on her oath to be faithful, heart may not be able to stand winning mistress, monk entrusted with care of getting husband for girl, takes dowry himself, illness feigned to escape rendezvous with undesired mistress, importunate lover induced to dress as woman and sift flour, chaste woman refers lover to her husband for permission, amorous intrigue exposed and faithless husband humiliated, wife surprises husband in adultery and shames him into giving her all she desires, letter delivered to wrong person, woman substitutes for her daughter in the dark, woman enticed into man's room by feigned illness, man disguised as groom enters mistress's room, lover gets self carried into beloved's house to wait for clean clothes after a purposeful fall in mud, man burns down own neighboring house to gain access to bedroom of beloved, entrance into woman's room through concealed door, wife of philanderer gets revenge by having an affair herself, the husband's good eye covered, paramour escapes by pretending to be returning borrowed basket, wife feigns death and slips out to lover, husband unwittingly instrumental in wife's adultery, wife's attendants on trip chase wrong man as suspected lover and miss real lover, husband hides in wife's room and kills paramour, lover disguised as monk or friar meets sweetheart, disguise of woman in man's clothes, wife takes mistress's place in husband's bed, monk becomes husband to girl at night, so that his friend may have dowry, adulteress feigns great disdain of men; will look at none but husband (and lover), Potiphar's wife, adulteress tricks husband into killing allegedly importunate lover, angry brother kills husband, thinking latter had killed wife (sister) and baby, lover commits suicide on finding beloved dead, boy unwittingly commits incest with his mother, lover's spur catches in sheet when he tries to escape, reward for long-suffering nun: made abbess of convent, husband forgiven for having killed jealous wife: builds monastery and becomes monk in it, God punishes murder of brother-in-law by having murderer's male heirs die, punishment for desecration of host, burning monastery and monks in it as punishment for incontinence, murder of faithless wife with poisoned salad, treachery punished by banishment to desert isle, imprisonment for adultery, arms cut off as punishment for adultery, legs cut off as punishment for adultery, adulteress made to drink from paramour's skull, adulteress punished by having skeleton of her former paramour hang in her room, penance: wearing friar's cord about bare skin, murder by stabbing, mutilation: cutting off hands (arms), lover declares himself by showing her own reflection to his beloved, sick lover dies from exertion of embracing beloved, lovers buried in same grave, lovers buried in same grave, disappointed lover turns hermit, lover becomes friar and sweetheart nun when unable to marry, brother's consent for sister's marriage needed, adulteress chooses loathly paramour, husband's unjust jealousy forces wife to commit adultery, escape from undesired lover, woman kicks lecherous monk down the stairs, mutilation to repel lover, monk unsuccessfully tempted by woman he formerly loved, father-daughter incest, mother guilty of incest with son whose honor she is testing, brother-sister incest, man becomes hermit when he realizes selfishness of his beloved's love
Place of publication
Paris
Publication date
1558
Title
L'Heptaméron