Christine de Pisan

British  

/ krɪstin də pizɑ̃ /

noun

1. ?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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Example Sentences

Eustache Deschamps The chief authors of these pieces during the period we are discussing were Jehannot de Lescurel, Guillaume de Machault, Eustache Deschamps, Jean Froissart, Christine de Pisan, Alain Chartier, and Charles d'Orléans.

From A Short History of French Literature by Saintsbury, George

In the Harleian Collection is a fine manuscript containing the writings of Christine de Pisan, a distinguished woman of the fourteenth century.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 by Various

For five hundred years ago Christine de Pisan arrived at the same conclusion which the learned professors of Germany reached only in the last decade of the nineteenth century.

From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by Zahm, John Augustine

On the passages borrowed from "Mandeville" by Christine de Pisan, in her "Chemin de long Estude," see in "Romania," vol. xxi. p.

From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jusserand, Jean Jules

Two or three of his tales in verse are imitated from the "Gesta Romanorum"; another, the "Letter of Cupid," from the "Epistre an Dieu d'Amours," of Christine de Pisan.

From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jusserand, Jean Jules