Music celebrating the life and work of the western world's first professional woman writer. Born in Venice in 1364, Christine de Pizan rose to advise kings and queens of France. She called out misogyny, championed women, and wrote the first French poem celebrating Joan of Arc. Soprano Margaret Hunter and the German ensemble Capella de la Torre perform fifteenth-century music associated with Christine, including Gilles Binchois's setting of her moving lament on the death of her husband, Deuil angoisseus (Anguished grief).
