Christine de Pisan
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wrote for a living (years before any woman did this in Britain). She is remarkable both as a sophisticated, polished, and versatile writer of poetry in French, and as a proto-feminist. Her works (more than a dozen of them) quickly reached print (still a rarity when she was writing), both in their original French and in English translations: their titles take varying forms.
- BirthName: Christine de Pisan Her name de Pisan comes from the original locale of her father's family, the small northern Italian town of Pizzano near Bologna. Her father's name, Tommaso di Benvenuto da Pizzano, was gallicised by the French to Thomas de Pisan.
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