The Writings of Christine De Pizan Author:Christine de Pizan, Charity Cannon Willard (Editor) Christine de Pizan (1364-1429?), France's first woman of letters, is widely known for her Book of the City of Ladies (Persea, 1982), a classic work of revisionist history that seeks to show that women are the moral and intellectual equals of men. In recent years, Christine has taken her place within the canon of Western literature alongside ... more »Boccaccio and Dante, and yet very little of this writer's considerable oeuvre has been translated into English« less