Maddalena Buonsignori

Maddalena Buonsignori was a 14th-century law professor at the University of Bologna.[1]

Buonsignori taught jurisprudence in 1380. Around this time other women were given similar opportunities at Bologna University however this opportunity was unique to the school.[2] She wrote a Latin treatise, De Legibus Connubialibus, in which she explored the legal status of the women in her time from various points of view. [3]

References

  1. ↑ Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries, Volume 6. Rittenhouse Press. 1908. p. 104.
  2. ↑ Porter, Charlotte Endymion (1886). Shakespeariana; a Critical and Contemporary Review of Shakespearian Literature, Volume 3. New York: L. Scott Publishing Company. p. 498.
  3. ↑ Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries, Volume 6. Rittenhouse Press. 1908. p. 104.
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