And well I know that thy sex,
'Midst the offices dear unto us and humble cares,
Can raise itself, and by learned writings
Win for itself immortality.
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"Ode to Pellegrina Amoretti of Oneglia", who was crowned with honour as doctor of Civil and Canonical Law at the University of Pavia in 1777. Reported in Isidoro Del Lungo (tr. Mary C. Steegmann) Women of Florence (1907), p. xxiv