Christine de Pizan
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Middle Ages
- Categories: Women’s Issues, Literature, Publishing
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Poetry, Poets
- Curriculum: Women’s History, Medieval History/Middle Ages, French History
Article abstract: The first woman of letters in France and the first known woman in Europe to earn her living by writing, Christine was a prolific, versatile, and acclaimed lyric poet, didactic writer, and Humanist scholar; she was a precursor to the femmes savantes of the Renaissance and to nineteenth and twentieth century feminists.
Early Life
Shortly after Christine was born in Venice in 1364, her father, Tommaso di Benvenuto da Pizzano, who held a chair in astrology at the University of Bologna (where he had also studied medicine and astrology), was...
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