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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

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, she talked to the students through a curtain so they would not be distracted by her beauty. Some suggest that she married the lawyer

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or the professor

John of Legnano John of Legnano (Italian: Giovanni da Legnano; c. 1320 – February 1383) was an Italian jurist, a canon lawyer at the University of Bologna and the most prominent defender of Pope Urban VI at the outbreak of the Western Schism. Biography John w ...

, 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

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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 educat ...

, 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