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thumb|250px|Portrait of Marguerite de Navarre|Marguerite, Queen of Navarre, attributed to [[Jean Clouet, .]] 250px|thumb|''The Gentleman's Spur catching in the Sheet. Illustration from an 1894 edition of The Tales of the Heptameron. The Heptaméron is a collection of 72 short stories written in French by Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549), published posthumously in 1558. It has the form of a frame narrative and was inspired by The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. It was originally intended to contain one hundred stories covering ten days like The Decameron'', but at Marguerite’s death it was com

Historiae animalium

16th century zoology book by Conrad Gessner

literary work by Nostradamus

The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstruous Regiment of Women

book by John Knox

Magia Naturalis

book by Giambattista della Porta