Christine de Pisan

/ 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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The second course, inspired by Christine de Pisan, the Venice-born late-medieval author best known for defending the rights of women, was stuffed capon wrapped in parma ham and served with a bright-orange sauce of verjus and saffron.

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Yuknavitch’s Pizan is a resurrection of the medieval French scholar and historian Christine de Pisan, who in 1405 wrote the allegorical “Book of the City of Ladies,” and, in 1429, “The Song of Joan of Arc,” an account of the life of the martyr.

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Christine de Pisan’s description of the great gardens of the convent of Poissy is most attractive.

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Nor, as regards individual and single names, can the century of Charles d’Orl�ans, of Alain Chartier, of Christine de Pisan, of Coquillart, of Comines, and, above all, of Villon, be said to lack illustrations.

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Modern criticism has attacked the identity of the jovial miller, who was once supposed to have written and perhaps Christine de Pisan. invented the songs called vaux de vire, and to have also carried on a patriotic warfare against the English.

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