Did Christine de Pizan compose two Latin lines ?
Lori J. Walters
Lori J. Walters, "Did Christine de Pizan compose two Latin lines ?", Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes, 23, 2012, p. 295-298.
Résumé de l’article
L’article présente de nouvelles raisons de croire que Christine de Pizan est l’auteur des deux lignes en latin se trouvant dans l’une des trois copies de présentation de ses Sept psaumes allegorisés, le Ms. Brussels, KBR 10987.
Determining their authorship has important implications, since Christine’s competency in Latin has long been a subject of controversy. The discovery of Christine Reno and Liliane Dulac2 that Christine translated into French a section of Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics in her Advision Cristine resolved any doubts about her ability to read Latin. The evidence I offer here in support of the idea that she actually composed two lines in Latin further strengthens our assessment of her competency in the language.