See Also: Christine de Pisan(encyclopedia)
Pisan(dictionary)
Le Christine(tourism)
Christine (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Ladd-Franklin, Christine(encyclopedia)

Christine de Pisan (sh)




or Christine de Pizan

born 1364, Venice
died งใ 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 Ditie de Jehanne d'Arc (1429), inspired by Joan of Arc's early victories.