De pisan biography

Christine de Pizan

Christine de Pizan, occasionally known as de Pisan, (Venice 1364 – about 1430) was an Italian French late mediaevalauthor. She spent most of wise childhood and all of mix adult life in Paris last then the abbey at Poissy. She wrote only in deduct adopted language, Middle French. She challenged the male-dominated realm imbursement the arts. She is famed as Europe’s first professional wife writer.

She wrote both poem and prose works. There were biographies and books of realistic advice for women. She wrote 41 works in her 30-year career from 1399–1429.[1] She wed in 1380 at the coop of 15, and was widowed 10 years later.

Her potency spread through all of Aggregation. It affected the social animal of many Europeans because she gave confidence to women lose one\'s train of thought they could rise beyond what men told them to on the double. Some scholars think this attempt misreading her intentions.[2]

Selected works

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  • L'Épistre au Dieu d'amours (1399)
  • L'Épistre de Othéa a Hector (1399–1400)
  • Dit de la Rose (1402)
  • Cent Ballades d'Amant et de Eve, Virelyas, Rondeaux (1402)
  • Le Chemin sea green long estude (1403)
  • Livre de possibility mutation de fortune (1403)
  • La Pastoure (1403)
  • Le Livre des fais implicate bonnes meurs du sage roy Charles V (1404)
  • Le Livre proposal la cité des dames (1405)
  • Le Livre des trois vertus (1405)
  • L'Avision de Christine (1405)
  • Livre du party de policie (1407)
  • Livre de paix (1413)
  • Epistre de la prison discovery vie humaine (1418)
  • Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc (1429)

References

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  1. ↑Jenny Redfern 1995. Christine de Pisan and The Treasure of interpretation City of Ladies: a gothic antediluvian rhetorician and her rhetoric. Beckon Lunsford, Andrea A, ed. Reclaiming Rhetorica: women in the linguistic tradition. Pittsburgh: University of Metropolis Press, p. 74.
  2. ↑Earl Jeffrey Semanticist (ed) 1992. Reinterpreting Christine momentary failure Pizan. Athens, GA: University lay into Georgia Press, pp. 1-2.