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Isabella Losa, also known as Isabella Losa of Cordova or Losa de Cordova (1491-1564) was a doctor of
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. Isabella Losa was known for her knowledge of
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. She received the degree of
Doctor of Divinity A Doctor of Divinity (D.D. or DDiv; la, Doctor Divinitatis) is the holder of an advanced academic degree in divinity. In the United Kingdom, it is considered an advanced doctoral degree. At the University of Oxford, doctors of divinity are ran ...
from the University of Cordova. After the death of her husband in 1539, she became a Clarissan
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and moved to Vercelli in Piedmont in 1553, where she founded an orphanage, Santa Maria di Loreto. She died in 1564 at age 74.Koren Whipp, "Isabella Losa," Project Continua, Accessed 2.1.14. http://www.projectcontinua.org/losa-isabella/ Isabella Losa's name was included in the Heritage Floor of artist
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's work
The Dinner Party ''The Dinner Party'' is an installation artwork by feminist artist Judy Chicago. Widely regarded as the first epic feminist artwork, it functions as a symbolic history of women in civilization. There are 39 elaborate place settings on a triangul ...
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Beatriz Galindo Beatriz Galindo, sometimes spelled Beatrix and also known as La Latina ( – 23 November 1535), was a Spanish Latinist and educator. She was a writer, humanist and a teacher of Queen Isabella of Castile and her children. She was one of the mos ...
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Francisca de Lebrija Francisca de Lebrija was a 16th-century lecturer at the University of Alcalá de Henares in Spain. Francisca lived in a time when it was very uncommon for educated women to teach and lecture in a university. Spain was one of the few places where wo ...
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Luisa de Medrano Luisa de Medrano (Atienza 9 August 1484 – 1527), was a Spanish scholar. She is known as the first female Professor in the Universtiy of Salamanca. Luisa belonged to the group of Renaissance women who were famous for their knowledge and called by ...
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Juliana Morell Juliana Morell (16 February 1594 – 26 June 1653) was a Catalan Dominican nun and intellectual child prodigy. Some sources assert that she received a doctorate in canon law in Avignon in 1608. In 1941, Sylvanus Morley traced this to an 1859 misrea ...


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Project Continua: Biography of Isabella Losa
Project Continua is a web-based multimedia resource dedicated to the creation and preservation of women’s intellectual history from the earliest surviving evidence into the 21st Century. {{DEFAULTSORT:Losa, Isabella 1491 births 1564 deaths 16th-century Spanish women Christian Hebraists Poor Clares 16th-century Spanish people Spanish Renaissance people Renaissance women