 Christine de Pizan was the most known late medieval French writer, rhetorician, and critic, wrote "Book of the City of Ladies" in 1405, a text about an allegorical city in which independent women lived free from the slander of men.In her work she included real women artists, such as Anastasia, who was considered one of the best Parisian illuminators, although none of her work has survived.Other humanist texts led to increased education for Italian women.