7-8 page long research paper on Visible and Invisible cities (political theory, Renaissance literature)
Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies All page references are to the Penguin Classics edition on the list of books for purchase on this course. Part 1, chapters 1-8 (pp. 5-20)*; chapters 11-12 (pp. 29-30); chapter 27 (pp. 57-58); chapter 30 (pp. 60-61) Part 2, chapter 1 (pp. 91-93); chapter 7 (pp. 101-03); chapters 12-13 (pp. 107-110); chapter 36 (pp. 139-41); chapter 53 (169-70); chapter 55 (173-74) Part 3, chapter 1 (pp. 201-202); chapter 19 (pp. 237-39) * For clarification of the identity of the text referred to as Matheolus in the opening chapter, see the Glossary at the end of your edition, pp. 265-66