Samuel Putnam, the author, was primarily a self taught translator, but also loved researching the subject matter of his translations and his work of translating Rabelais led him to study and become entranced by Marguerite of Navarre and, after fifteen years of research wrote this biography of the Princess, who was also a diplomat, a theologian, and the author of the Heptameron. This is a SCARCE FIRST EDITION in a serviceable DUST JACKET.