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Maria Teresa Guerra Medici
In this article, Maria Teresa Guerra Medici draws attention to the Italian humanist poet and political writer, Christine de Pisan, who spent her working life at the Court of France in the reigns of Charles V and Charles VI. Her writings were widely disseminated, and she maintained an extensive correspondence with other members of the humanist community in western Europe. She was quoted as an original authority in discussions of political theory well into the seventeenth century. Although she was not in fact an original thinker, and much of her work consisted of compilations of texts, she is distinguished by being the first known female writer on the laws and customs of war, and thus a pioneer of the concept of international law
