Janot. Christine de Pizan, who wrote for a living, was very interested in producing sumptuously illustrated manuscripts, and therefore eight of the twenty-one surviving 15th-century manuscripts are illustrated. She preferred what Laura Rinaldi Dufresne calls a "simple, straightforward Italianate style rather than the fussy embellished versions preferred in French workshops". De Pizan supervised the first miniature illustrations, which were made by "The City of Ladies Master", a name bestowed by Millard Meiss. References External links Complete text in French at Project Gutenberg Illustrated manuscript at Bibliothèque nationale de France Treasure of the City of Ladies, The Treasure of the City of Ladies, The Treasure of the City of Ladies, The Allegory