Note 268 — BOOK VIII[239]

Christine de Pisan (1363-1415), born in Venice, came to the Court of France with her father, Thomas de Pisan, who had been appointed astrologer to Charles V. She married a Frenchman of good family, was left a widow at an early age, and devoted herself to literature for her consolation. She left ballads, lays, virelays, rondeaus and short poems, such as the Débat des deux amants, the Chemin de longue étude, etc., and a number of prose works, including the Vision de Christine de Pisan and the work from which the above quotation is taken, entitled, the Livre des faiets et bonnes mœurs de Charles V. Some of her works were translated from the Romance language into French and published separately, in Paris, in 1522, 1536, 1549 and later years.—T.