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  1. Mar 11, 2020 · The writings of Christine de Pizan. Christine de Pizan (1364-1429?), France's first woman of letters, is widely known for her Book of the City of Ladies (Persea, 1982), a classic work of revisionist history that seeks to show that women are the moral and intellectual equals of men.

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    Christine de Pisan (circa 1364--1430) was born in Italy and came to France at the age of four with her father. Arguably the first woman in Europe to earn a living as an author, she is widely regard...

    - France
    - France--Île-de-France--Paris
    - 1405
    - Allegory
    - Title devised, in English, by Library staff.
    - Original resource extent: Vellum, 79 pages, miniatures, decorated letters.
    - Original resource at: National Library of France.
    - Content in French.
  2. 2021 •. Monika Leisch-Kiesl. Le livre de la cité des dames (The Book of the City of Ladies) by the French writer and philosopher Christine de Pizan (1364 – ca. 1430) is among the most widely-read texts of the early 15th century and is considered to be one of the first feminist works in European literature.

    • Joan M. Ferrante, Christine de Pizan, Jeffrey Richards
    • 1983
  3. This essay examines how Christine de Pizan reclaims the female identity of the virago in Le Livre de la cité des dames (c. 1405). Critics have noted her position that all humans share the same essence, and that women are not inferior to men, but she also identifies certain attributes as being natural to women.

  4. Christine de Pizan: Le Livre du Chemin de Long Estude Ester Zago Christine de Pizan, a widow at the age of twenty-five, had to overcome her bereavement and to provide for herself, her children, her mother and her niece. Years after the death of her husband she was still fighting legal battles to obtain a pension. It

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