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  • Record Number: 17587
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Richards , Earl Jeffrey.
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  • Title: Christine de Pizan, the Conventions of Courtly Diction, and Italian Humanism [Christine dramatically transformed French poetic conventions through the influence of Italian humanist literary culture. The author argues that Christine prefers the models of eloquence offered by Italian poets like Dante and Petrarch over those offered by the French tradition (including the “Roman de la Rose” and Guillaume Machaut’s poetry). Christine’s writings offer a revolutionary political vision, espousing a unifying ideology of French nationalism over class division. Title note supplied by Feminae.].
  • Source: Reinterpreting Christine de Pizan.  Edited by Earl Jeffrey Richards, Joan Williamson, Nadia Margolis, and Christine Reno.  University of Georgia Press, 1992.  Pages 250 - 271.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Christine de Pizan, Poet Courtly Literature Deschamps, Eustache, Poet Guillaume de Machaut, Poet Humanism Jean de Meun, Poet- Roman de la Rose Literature- Verse Petrarca, Francesco, Poet Politics in Literature Sources Women Authors
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  • Geographic Area: France;Italy
  • Century: 15
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  • Year of Publication: 1992.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 0820313076