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title: CHRISTINE DE PIZAN

subject date: 2004-05-11

caption: CHRISTINE DE PISAN (1364 – 1430 ca.), French writer, poet and philosopher of Italian origin. In the miniature Christine confers with the three Ladies Reason, Justice and Virtue to question the reasons for the rampant misogyny, through the allegorical construction of ''The City of Ladies'', which re-evaluates the intentionally ignored qualities of eminent peers of the past and present. Unhappily widowed and with three children under thirty, she decided not to remarry, took charge of her life by running a copying and miniature workshop; making use of the vast culture that her father had encouraged her to acquire, she began to successfully compose her own appreciated works that allowed her to recover and lead (an extraordinary fact in her time) an independent life ''like a man''. The name ''Pisan'' derives from Pizzano, a town in the Bolognese Apennines where her family had its origins. Detail from a miniature by the Master of the City of Ladies, France, 15th century.

category: HIS

copyright: © Fototeca Gilardi

copyright status: Copyrighted Work

country: Francia

credit: Fototeca Gilardi

instructions: Per utilizzi: Fototeca Gilardi - t. 02 3931 2652

Creation date: 0000-00-00 00:00:00

object name: 3063

priority: 0

multiplying price: 1.00

pricing: default

continent: Europa

image century : XV

image epoch: Medioevo

licence: RM

subject century: XV

subject epoch: Medioevo

technique: Miniatura

id: 13831

file name: FSNgilardi_3063.jpg

keywords

Christine of PisanChristine de PisanCristina from Pizzanoprofessional writerhistoricaleducationgender equalitywomen's quarreleruditeliterary womanwriterWomenemancipationfrom mewomanFeminismFranceItalyMiddle Agesallegory