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Catherine d'Amboise (1475–1550) was a prose writer and poet of the French Renaissance. She wrote both verse and novels, including ''Book of the Prudent and Imprudent'' (des Prudents et Imprudents'' ) (1509) and ''Fainting Lady’s Complaint against Fortune'' (complainte de la dame pasemée contre Fortune'' ) (1525), as well as ''royal song'' (royal'' ), which is the only extant poem of it genre. Catherine was one of a select group of aristocratic French female authors who have gained considerable attention in recent years. She was the subject of a thesis by Ariane Bergeron-Foote, ''Les oeuvres en prose de Catherine d'Amboise, dame de Lignières'' (1481-1550). The edition of ''Fainting Lady’s'' has yet to be published.〔 ==Family and life== Catherine d’Amboise was the daughter of Charles I d'Amboise and Catherine de Chauvigny, a powerful and wealthy French family. Her uncle was Georges d’Amboise, a French Roman Catholic Cardinal and minister of state. Catherine would act as a patron for her nephew, the poet Michel d’Amboise.〔 Catherine married Christophe de Tournon at a young age, but she became a widow at seventeen. In 1501, she married Philibert de Beaujeu, the Bishop of Bethlehem. Beaujeu died in 1541, and the following year she married for a third time, at the age of 65 years to Louis de Cleves.〔 Not much is factually known about Catherine’s life apart from the aspects that she chronicled in her writings. Through her writing, she spoke emotionally about the deaths of her parents and first husband, as well as the difficulties faced by female authors, including limited access to learning, inexperience in writing, and feminine modesty, with forbade touching upon topics deemed not womanly.〔 With her writings she also recorded her personal hardships in dealing with death. In ''Fainting Lady’s Complaint against Fortune'', she expressed how she lost both of her parents, her first husband and only child, her uncle Georges, who had died in 1510, and her brothers. Her eldest brother, Charles II d’Amboise, died in 1511. Her sister Marie died in 1519.〔 In ''Fainting Lady'', her writing style is autobiographical – the protagonist’s name is Catherine – and she laments the misfortune that has deprived her of her parents, her first husband and her only child, her uncle Georges, who died in 1510, and her brothers. She mourned, through the novel, the death of her brother Charles II; Catherine lamented that the deaths had taken the glory away from the house of Amboise, especially considering Charles II’s only son died at the Battle of Pavia in 1525. Catherine states that she regularly uses writing as a type of therapy, often retiring to her study to compose “lamentations and feminine regrets.” In ''Fainting Lady’s'', she describes how, upon receiving news of her nephew death, she fainted and had to be resuscitated by a friend, Dame Raison.〔 After her nephew died, Catherine inherited his lands. They would pass to the house of La Rochefoucauld at her own death in 1550. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Catherine d'Amboise」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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