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Christine de Pisan

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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.
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Christine de Pisan

 or 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.
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The less known also delight and edify by their distinctive personal voice: Christine de Pisan and Sor Juana de la Cruz, relatively unknown to me; or Pope Leo XIII and Dorothy Sayers in unexpected and mutually enriching guise.
How They Answered by Imbelli, Robert P. / Commonweal
For me, this insistence on reaching beyond the parameters of a more narrowly defined women's history is Summit's strongest intellectual asset, one which promises original insights into even such a well-analyzed subject as Christine de Pisan.
Lost Property: The Woman Writer and English Literary History, ... by Zimmerman, Susan / Renaissance Quarterly
There follows a discussion of her sympathetic treatment of Semiramis as opposed to those of Boccaccio and Christine de Pisan (Rabelais's could be mentioned as well, cf.
Louise Labe Lyonnaise ou la Renaissance au feminin by Winn, Colette H. / Renaissance Quarterly
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