Question
This collection’s narrators include two men whose names may mean “sweet tooth” and “male goat,” as well as lightly veiled versions of real noblewomen under names such as Oisille (wah-ZEE) and Parlamente. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this collection that includes fictionalized versions of real incidents, such as Marguerite de La Rocque’s time marooned near Quebec. Ten people tell stories after a flood delays their return from Cauterets in this collection of 72 stories by Marguerite of Navarre.
ANSWER: Heptameron [or Tales of Fortunate Lovers; or L’Heptaméron]
[10e] Marguerite of Navarre’s Heptameron was meant to imitate the structure of this author’s Decameron.
ANSWER: Giovanni Boccaccio
[10h] The Heptameron was also influenced by the Cent nouvelle nouvelles, a compilation by an author with this first name. Another author with this first name was the first European translator of the One Thousand and One Nights.
ANSWER: Antoine [accept Antoine de la Sale or Antoine Galland]
<Fleisig, Short Fiction>
Summary
| 2024 ESPN @ Brown | 04/06/2024 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Cambridge | 04/06/2024 | Y | 2 | 20.00 | 100% | 50% | 50% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Chicago | 03/23/2024 | Y | 6 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Columbia | 03/23/2024 | Y | 7 | 15.71 | 100% | 43% | 14% |
| 2024 ESPN @ Online | 06/01/2024 | Y | 4 | 22.50 | 100% | 75% | 50% |
Data
| Eugene o'Negging | Heat-Oppressed Brains | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| You, Me and the Big G | A VK a Day Keeps the Doctor Away | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |