Un’italiana alla corte di Francia

Originally from Pizzano, near Bologna, but having lived in France, Christine de Pizan was between the end of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th century the first professional intellectual woman. A destiny out of the ordinary, starting with the extraordinary opportunity that was for her the education she received from her father, a well-known physician and astrologer. Widowed and destitute, she became a writer of esteemed works that she had herself mined. But above all, she was a proud and effective opponent of prejudice against women, as witnessed by ‘The City of Ladies