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A PISANO

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 647 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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A

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

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

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