Isabel de Villena
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Author
Isabel de Villena
Location
Valencia, Spain
Dates
1430-1490
Biography
Isabel de Villen was the illegitimate child of Enrique de Villena an unknown noblewoman who rose to become the abbess of the Santa Trinitat convent inValencia at the age of 33. As the first major female writer of a work done in the Catalan language, she composed a number of religious treaties. Her most famous work was her Vita Christi (Christ's Life).
Works
Vita Christi
Languages
Valencian and Catalan
Genres
Epistolary
Editions and Translations
Llibre anomenat 'Vita Christi.' Edited by Ramon Miquely Planas, 3 vols (Barcelona: Biblioteca Catalana, 1916)
