A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Amorette, Maria Pellegrina

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AMORETTE, MARIA PELLEGRINA,

Is the only female who has obtained the degree of doctor of laws in Italy, except Bassi of Bologna. She was born at Oneglia, in 1756, and died in 1787, being thus cut off in the flower of her life. This extraordinary female maintained theses in philosophy against all who chose to appear as disputants, in her fifteenth year, and received her degree from the university in her twenty-first. She composed a treatise on the law of dower among the Romans, entitled "De jure Dotium apud Romanos," which was printed after her death. Modesty and piety were among her reputed virtues.