Christine de Pisan, the first Frenchwoman to live by her pen, wrote this love story around 1405 in the voice of a young duke. He tells of his devotion to a married princess, the jousts and festivities he holds in her honour, their secret meetings and letters, and the cost of keeping their love hidden, with ballads and roundels set through the prose.
A graceful example of late medieval courtly literature, in an English prose version by Laurence Binyon and Eric Maclagan. Download the free EPUB.