Elena Lucrezia Corner (o Cornaro) Piscopia

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Elena Lucrezia Corner (or Cornaro) Piscopia

She was the first woman graduate in Europe and the world, one of the many firsts in the history of Venice.
Elena Lucrezia Corner (or Cornaro) Piscopia was awarded the title of Doctor of Philosophy in Padua on 25 June 1678.

Elena Lucrezia Corner (or Cornaro) Piscopia was born in the lagoon city on 5 June 1646 at Ca' Loredan, now one of the City Council offices. She was the daughter of Giovanni Battista Cornaro, procurator of St. Mark's, a man of culture and the owner of a well-stocked library, and Zanetta Boni, who was not a member of the nobility and therefore cohabited for twenty years, before marrying, with Elena Lucrezia's father, giving birth to their first five children.Membership of an ancient and noble lineage such as that of the Corner - who gave the Republic four doges (Marco, Giovanni I, Francesco

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