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Novella d'Andrea, (b. 1312 in

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– d. 1333 (or around 1346 or 1366)), was an Italian legal scholar and professor in law at the

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. As the daughter of

Giovanni d'Andrea Giovanni d'Andrea or Johannes Andreæ (1270 1275 – 1348) was an Italian expert in canon law, the most renowned and successful canonist of the later Middle Ages. His contemporaries referred to him as ''iuris canonici fons et ...

, a professor in

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at the University of Bologna, she was educated by her father and reportedly took over his lectures at the university during his absence. According to Christine de Pisan, she talked to the students through a curtain so they would not be distracted by her beauty. Some suggest that she married the lawyer Giovanni Calderinus or the professor John of Legnano, but, according to others sources she married the lawyer Filippo Formaglini in 1326. She died young. Her father supposedly gave his work about the

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s of

Pope Gregory IX Pope Gregory IX ( la, Gregorius IX; born Ugolino di Conti; c. 1145 or before 1170 – 22 August 1241) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 19 March 1227 until his death in 1241. He is known for issuing the '' Decre ...

the name ''Novellae'' to her memory. Her sister,

Bettina d'Andrea Bettina d'Andrea, (b. in Bologna – d. 1355) was an Italian legal scholar and professor in law and philosophy at the university of Padua. As the daughter of Giovanni d'Andrea, professor in Canon law at the university of Bologna, she was educated ...

, is reported to have taught law and philosophy at the university at

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, where her husband Giovanni Da Sangiorgio was also employed, until her death in 1335.

References

* Jennifer S. Uglow, ''The Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography'', Macmillan, 1982, 1333 deaths 14th-century Italian women Jurists from Bologna Canon law jurists Academic staff of the University of Bologna 14th-century educators 1312 births 14th-century Italian jurists {{Italy-law-bio-stub