For Reading 16.1, Marguerite de Navarre’s Story 55 from the Heptameron: How might the reader understand, even justify in humanist terms, the Spanish wife’s actions?
What will be an ideal response?
Just as the narrator in the story does, the reader can justify the Spanish wife’s actions because the gift to the Church would not have secured her husband’s salvation. Further, instead of giving the money away to the Church, she saved the money for herself and for her children.
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A. Scivias. B. memento mori. C. estampie. D. "Dies irae."
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What will be an ideal response?
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What will be an ideal response?