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PISANO, A

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 647 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PISANO, A . 647 de la paix (1412-1413), but after the disasters of the See also:campaign of See also:Agincourt she retired to a See also:convent. We have no more of her See also:work until 1429, when she See also:broke her silence to write a See also:song in See also:honour of See also:Joan of Arc. Of the circumstances of her See also:death nothing is known but it probably took See also:place about this See also:time. Her Cite See also:des dames contains many interesting contemporary portraits, and her Livre des trois vertus contains details of domestic See also:life in the See also:France of the See also:early 15th See also:century. not supplied by more formal historians. Her poems were edited by See also:Maurice See also:Roy for the Societe des anciens Textes See also:francais (1886, &c.), and her Livre du chemin du See also:long estude, by Puschel (See also:Berlin, 1887). There are monographs by Raimond Thomassy (See also:Paris, 1838) ; E. M. D. Robineau (See also:Saint-Omer, 1882) ; and See also:Friedrich See also:Koch (See also:Goslar, 1885). It is possible that See also:Jean See also:Castel, who was chronicler of France under See also:Louis XI., was Christine's See also:grandson. Hoccleve imitated her Epitre au dieu d'amour, in his " See also:Letter of See also:Cupid " (Chaucerian and other Pieces, ed.

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Skeat, 1897). A See also:translation of her Epitre d'Othea was made (c. 144o) by See also:Stephen See also:Scrope for his stepfather, See also:Sir See also:John See also:Fastolf, and is pre-served in a MS. at Longleat. This was edited (1904) for the See also:Roxburghe See also:Club by W. G. F. See also:Warner as The See also:Epistle of Othea to See also:Hector, or the Boke of Knyghthode. The Moral See also:Proverbs of Christyne de Pise, translated by See also:Earl See also:Rivers, was printed in 1478 by See also:Caxton, who himself translated, by See also:order of See also:Henry VII., her Livre des faitz d'armes, et de chevalerie, a See also:treatise on the See also:art of See also:war, based chiefly on See also:Vegetius. Her Cite des dames was translated by See also:Brian Anslay (See also:London, 1521).

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