Christine de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431
Christine de Pisans' ballades, rondeaux, and virelais : an anthology
Ballades, rondeaux, and virelais : an anthology
/ edited by Kenneth Varty
- xl, 188 pages
Poems in French.
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxxviii-xil) and index.
Introduction The background The arrangement of the poems The form of the poems The language of the poems The establishment of the text A selective bibliography The poems In praise of marriage A widow's grief and plight A woman's story A man's story Secret grief Declaration of love Sweethearts reunited A woman's joy Adulterous love Secret love and fear of gossip "Femmes fraudees" and "faulx amans" The end of an affair Reflective, moralizing, satiric, and personal poems
Ballades Rondeaus Virelai French poetry--Women authors