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Christine de Pizan

Type Figure Region France Time 1364–1430 Also known as Christine de Pizan、Christine de Pisan、Christine de Pizan

Italian-born French woman writer, poet, and political thinker, one of Europe's earliest professional women who lived by writing.…

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  1. 1401–1403Paris · ParisFrom 1401 to 1403 she intervened in the Romance of the Rose debate in epistolary form, refuting the work's denigration of women, and wrote the Letter of Othea and the Book of the Mutations of Fortune, establishing her reputation as a professional writer.
  2. 1404–1407Paris · ParisIn 1405 she completed the major feminist defense the Book of the City of Ladies and its sequel the Treasury of the Three Virtues of Women, and wrote the Biography of Charles V and the Book of the Body Politic, discussing good governance and women's education in historical and allegorical form.
  3. 1408–1410Paris · ParisAmid intensifying Orleans-Burgundian factional conflict, around 1410 she completed the French version of the Book of the Deeds of Arms and Chivalry, systematically treating just war, knightly duties, and the treatment of prisoners of war, and in 1411 received a royal payment of 200 livres.

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