Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Dorotea Bocchi
Standard Name: Bocchi, Dorotea
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1390: Dorotea Bocchi was appointed to the chair...
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1390
Dorotea Bocchi
was appointed to the chair of medicine and moral philosophy at the University of Bologna, which she held for forty years.
Olsen, Kirstin. Chronology of Women’s History. Greenwood, 1994.
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: Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia became the...
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1678-06-25
Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia
became the first woman to be awarded an academic degree (although Dorotea Bocchi
had been appointed to an academic chair almost three hundred years before this).
Stevenson, Angus, and Christine A. Lindberg, editors. “Cornaro Piscopia, Elena Lucrezia”. New Oxford American Dictionary, 3rd ed., Oxford University Press, 2015.
Maschietto, Francesco Ludovico. Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia (1646-1684). Translator Vairo, Jan, Saint Joseph’s University Press, 2007.
