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

Some celebrated verse of Christine de Pisan, who wrote "The Life of Charles V," thus describes the cloister at Poissy.

From Royal Palaces and Parks of France by McManus, Blanche

Some verses by Christine de Pisan show them to have been in vogue already in the fourteenth century.

From The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. III. (of V.) by Saintsbury, George

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

On the actual productions of Christine de Pisan, which furnished other works to our first English printer, see the description by M. Paulin Paris of "Les Manuscrits Fran�ais de la Biblioth�que du Roi," vol. iv.

From The Boke of Noblesse by Unknown

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.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various