Who is the narrator, can she or he read minds, and, more importantly, can we trust her or him?
First-Person (Central Narrator)
Christine de Pizan doesn't give us just any first-person narrator. She makes herself the narrator of her own book, giving the whole story an autobiographical spin.
She starts out like this, for Pete's sake:
One day as I was sitting alone in my study surrounded by books on all kinds of subjects, devoting myself to literary studies, my usual habit, my mind dwelt at length on the weighty opinions of various authors whom I had studied for a long time. (1.1.1)
This intimacy allows her a pretty cool platform. By putting herself smack-dab in the middle of the book, she provides the intimacy to allow herself talk directly to her readers, saying stuff like,
Most excellent, revered, and honored princesses of France and of all lands, and all ladies and maidens, and, indeed, all women who have loved and do love and will love virtue and morality, as well as all who have died or who are now living or who are to come, rejoice and exult in our new City […] (2.69.1)
As you can see form this quote, Christine is usually speaking to female readers and characters, hoping that they'll draw strength and inspiration from her book. And she sets a good example for this strength by putting herself right in the center of her own story.