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Christine de Pizan — Woman of letters, author of the City of Ladies, c. 1364–c. 1430
The daughter of a physician and astrologer summoned to Paris by Charles V, raised at court, married at fifteen to a notary and royal secretary, widowed at twenty-five with three children, she lived by her writing: ballads and dits, then, from 1399 to 1418, political and moral treatises, a life of Charles V, the Book of the City of Ladies finished in 1405. She stood up to the defenders of the Romance of the Rose. In 1418 she left Paris, taken by the Burgundians, for a convent, probably the abbey of Poissy where her daughter lived; she emerged in July 1429 with the Ditié de Jehanne d’Arc, and probably died soon after. (Editorial synthesis)
Christine de Pizan was born in Venice. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Christine de Pizan died around 1430 (Julian calendar). (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Recorded work of Christine de Pizan: The Book of the City of Ladies. (source: Archives nationales and BnF)
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