In a message dated 5/10/00 9:44:54 AM GMT Daylight Time,
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> Isn't it Christine de Pisan who tells the story of the girl who saves her
> mother by breastfeeding her as she languishes in prison ?
Yes, it's in "The Book of the City of Ladies", II, 11, 1; the mother and
daughter are said to be Roman, "spoken of in the histories", but are not
named.
Henry Gough-Cooper
visit the Scottish Place-Name Society website at
http://www.st-and.ac.uk/institutes/sassi/spns/index.htm
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