Facts about The Book of the City of Ladies

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   A French-language work, The Book of the City of Ladies was among the earliest prose texts to systematically argue for women's intellectual and moral equality.

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   Regarded as an early feminist text, The Book of the City of Ladies draws on the lives of historical, mythological, and biblical women to argue against misogynist literature.

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   Christine de Pizan modeled The Book of the City of Ladies partly on Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris, a Latin work cataloguing famous women.

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   In The Book of the City of Ladies, three allegorical figures named Reason, Rectitude, and Justice guide Christine de Pizan in constructing her imaginary city.

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   Written by Christine de Pizan in 1405, The Book of the City of Ladies uses an allegorical city as a defense of women's virtues and capabilities.

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