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Christine de Pisan
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Christine de Pisan (French) [krɪstin də pizɑ̃]
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(Biographies / Christine de Pisan (?1364-?1430) F, Frenchnational of birth: Venetian, WRITING: poet, WRITING: writer) ?1364-?1430, French poet and prose writer, born in Venice. Her works include ballads, rondeaux, lays, and a biography of Charles V of France


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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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