Catherine d'Amboise
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Catherine d'Amboise was a prose writer and poet of the French
Renaissance
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At young age she married Christophe de Tournon, but she became a widow at age seventeen. In 1501, she married Philibert de Beaujeu. She was 65 at her third marriage, to Louis de Cleves.
After her nephew Georges III of Amboise died, she inherited his lands. They would pass to the house of La Rochefoucault at her own death in 1550.
and the Bible
. She also wrote about the difficulties female authors faced in her time. Her book Complaint against Fortune is an allergorical
journey in which she is accompanied by Dame Raison.
Her Devout Epistles was written in verse and are written to Christ and the Virgin Mary.
French people
The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...
Renaissance
Renaissance
The Renaissance was a cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era, but since the changes of the Renaissance were not...
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Family and life
Catherine was the daughter of Charles I d'Amboise and Catherine de Chauvigny. She would act as a patron for her nephew, the poet Michel d'Amboise.At young age she married Christophe de Tournon, but she became a widow at age seventeen. In 1501, she married Philibert de Beaujeu. She was 65 at her third marriage, to Louis de Cleves.
After her nephew Georges III of Amboise died, she inherited his lands. They would pass to the house of La Rochefoucault at her own death in 1550.
Writings
Her Book of the Prudent and Imprudent is from 1509 and gives a catologue of figures from history, mythologyMythology
The term mythology can refer either to the study of myths, or to a body or collection of myths. As examples, comparative mythology is the study of connections between myths from different cultures, whereas Greek mythology is the body of myths from ancient Greece...
and the Bible
Bible
The Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...
. She also wrote about the difficulties female authors faced in her time. Her book Complaint against Fortune is an allergorical
Allegory
Allegory is a demonstrative form of representation explaining meaning other than the words that are spoken. Allegory communicates its message by means of symbolic figures, actions or symbolic representation...
journey in which she is accompanied by Dame Raison.
Her Devout Epistles was written in verse and are written to Christ and the Virgin Mary.