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Christine de Pisan: see Pisan, Christine de Pisan, Christine de (krēstēn` də pēzäN`), 1364–c.1430, French poet, of Italian descent. ..... Click the link for more information. . Christine de Pisanor Christine de Pizan(born 1364, Venice—died c. 1430) French writer. She was the daughter of an astrologer to Charles V and the wife of a court secretary and took up writing to support her children when she was widowed, producing 10 volumes of graceful verse, including ballads, rondeaux, lays, and complaints, many in the courtly-love tradition. Some works, both poetry and prose, champion women, notably The Book of the City of Ladies (1405). She also wrote a life of Charles V and Le Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc (1429), inspired by Joan of Arc's early victories. Christine de Pisan ?1364--?1430, French poet and prose writer, born in Venice. Her works include ballads, rondeaux, lays, and a biography of Charles V of France How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Although his title evokes the City of Ladies by Christine de Pizan, a late medieval writer who celebrated extraordinary women from history and literature, Simons concentrates on the mostly inconspicuous and ordinary women who became beguines in the thirteenth through sixteenth centuries. We follow Norris through perceptive readings of works scattered throughout the canon, Milton, Christine de Pizan, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Anita Brookner. This book's major interests appear to concentrate on Chaucerian studies and on late medieval English literature in general, but its rich attention to texts in Latin, Italian, and French (with a firm grasp of the philological issues involved in them), and specifically to passages in continental Books of Hours, in Boccaccio and Christine de Pizan as well as in Dante and Petrarch, makes a useful contribution to early Renaissance studies. |
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