Marguerite of Navarre 1492 – 1549
Marguerite of Navarre (1492 – 1549) was a French philosopher of the Modern era, associated with Renaissance and Christian Philosophy.
Marguerite of Navarre, also known as Marguerite of Angouleme, was a French Renaissance queen, poet, and religious philosopher, sister of Francis I of France and queen of Navarre, whose court at Nerac became one of the chief centers of French humanist and reform-minded thought in the first half of the sixteenth century. Her Heptameron, a frame-narrative collection of seventy-two stories on love, marriage, and human folly modeled on Boccaccio's Decameron, embedded sustained philosophical conversation among its narrators, while her Mirror of the Sinful Soul mounted an evangelical reflection on the soul's relation to God that brushed Lutheran reform without quite committing to it. She protected reformers from persecution while remaining a member of the Catholic royal house.
Key facts
- Nationality
- French
- Era
- Modern
- Movements
- Renaissance, Christian Philosophy
Selected quotes
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Attributed to Marguerite of Navarre:
“Love is the great philosophical question, and every story is its commentary.”
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Attributed to Marguerite of Navarre:
“What we conceal from God we conceal in vain; what we reveal to God we have already begun to be free of.”
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Attributed to Marguerite of Navarre:
“A queen who reads is more dangerous than a queen who only commands.”
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Attributed to Marguerite of Navarre:
“The mirror of the sinful soul reflects what the proud soul refuses to see.”
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Attributed to Marguerite of Navarre:
“There is no court in which conversation among free spirits cannot make a small commonwealth.”
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- Marguerite of Navarre was a French philosopher of the Modern era.
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- Marguerite of Navarre, also known as Marguerite of Angouleme, was a French Renaissance queen, poet, and religious philosopher, sister of Francis I of France and queen of Navarre, whose court at Nerac became one of the chief centers of French humanist and reform-minded thought in the first half of the sixteenth century.
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- There are 15 attributed quotations from Marguerite of Navarre in the 1001Philosophers collection, organized by topic.