"Short Biography of Christine de Pizan Nationality: Italian  Also Known as: Christine de Pisan  Lifespan: 1364 -1430  Date of Birth: She was born in Venice in 1364  Family connections : She was the the daughter of Tommaso di Benvenuto da Pizzano (Thomas de Pizan), a physician, professor of astrology, and Councillor of the Republic of Venice  Christine de Pazan moved to Paris at the age of five with her father who had been appointed as the astrologer to Charles V  Christine de Pazan spent the rest of her life in France.  Early Life and Education: Extremely well educated in languages, literature, science and geometry  Married: Etienne du Castel at the age of 15. They had three children  Career: Medieval writer, rhetorician and critic. After her husband died Christine de Pizan sought to support herself as a writer of Ballads and later books  She had a famous quarrel with the author Jean de Meun. Christine de Pazan was incensed at his book called 'Roman de la Rose'. In her book called 'L'Epistre au Dieu d'amours' she took a strong stand against him criticising his work as being immoral and mysoginistic  In 1415 Christine retired to a convent where she continued to write  Date of Death: Christine de Pizan died in 1430 "

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