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Christine de Pizan was born in Italy and moved to the French court
of Charles V when she was four years old. She led a life of
learning, stimulated by her reading and by her drive to engage with
the cultural and political issues of her day. As a young widow she
sought to support her family through writing, and she broke new
ground by pursuing a life as an author and self-publisher,
producing an astonishingly large and varied body of work. Her
books, owned and read by some of the most important figures of her
day, addressed politics, philosophy, government, ethics, the
conduct of war, autobiography and biography, and religious
subjects. The God of Love's Letter (1399), Christine de Pizan's
first defense of women, is arguably her most succinct statement
about gender. It also rebukes the thirteenth-century Romance of the
Rose and anticipates Christine's City of Ladies. The Tale of the
Rose (1402) responds to the growth in chivalric orders for the
defense of women by arguing that women, not men, should choose
members of the "Order of the Rose." Both poems are freshly edited
here from their earliest manuscripts and each is newly translated
into English.
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