biography
pronunciation:
[kreesteen duh peezã
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| female
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| lived:
| (c.1364–c.1430)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Venice, NE Italy. Brought up in Paris, in 1378 she married Etienne Castel, who became the king's secretary, but who died in 1389. Left with three children and no money, she was obliged to call upon her literary talents, and between 1399 and 1415 produced a number of works in both prose and verse, including La Cité des dames (1405, The City of Ladies) and Livres des trois vertus, an educational and social compendium for women. An early feminist, her prose works include Dit de la Rose (1400), which vindicates women from the received calumnies of Jean de Meung in the Roman de la Rose. Her last work was a poem in praise of her contemporary, Joan of Arc, Ditie en l'honneur de Jeanne d'Arc. She withdrew to a nunnery in c.1418, but continued to write. |
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