Catherine d'Amboise
Catherine d'Amboise (1475–1550) was a prose writer and poet of the French Renaissance.
Family and life
Catherine was the daughter of Charles I d'Amboise and Catherine de Chauvigny. She would act as a patron for her nephew, the poet Michel d'Amboise.
At young age she married Christophe de Tournon, but she became a widow at age seventeen. In 1501, she married Philibert de Beaujeu. She was 65 at her third marriage, to Louis de Cleves.
After her nephew Georges III of Amboise died, she inherited his lands. They would pass to the house of La Rochefoucault at her own death in 1550.
Writings
Her Book of the Prudent and Imprudent is from 1509 and gives a catologue of figures from history, mythology and the Bible. She also wrote about the difficulties female authors faced in her time.[1] Her book Complaint against Fortune is an allergorical journey in which she is accompanied by Dame Raison.
Her Devout Epistles was written in verse and are written to Christ and the Virgin Mary.[2]