For 10 points, name these people who inhabit a metaphorical "city" in an allegorical prose work by Christine de Pizan, the first known professional French author of this type.
Several of these people cover themselves in raw chicken, which quickly rots in the heat of the sun, to drive away invaders from a town in Lombardy. The prologue to a poem about these people contains a punning apostrophe to the daisy as the "eye of the day." A jewel-encrusted mirror illuminates the positive qualities of these people, in a text whose main character uses a pen as a trowel to remove the mud covering them. In the earliest major work of literature in decasyllabic iambic pentameter, Cupid and Alceste demand that (*) Geoffrey Chaucer describe the virtues of these people. Jean de Meun's tirades against them in the Roman de la Rose prompted a reply in which Reason, Rectitude, and Justice entrust the author with building a safe haven for these people. For 10 points, name these people who inhabit a metaphorical "city" in an allegorical prose work by Christine de Pizan, the first known professional French author of this type.
Several of these people cover themselves in raw chicken, which quickly rots in the heat of the sun, to drive away invaders from a town in Lombardy.
women [or ladies; or other synonyms]