Elena Lucrezia Coranaro Piscopia (1646–1684) – the First Woman Philosophiae Magistra et Doctrix

The article presents the short biography and works of Venetian woman – Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, the first woman in history, who received doctoral degree in philosophy. It took place in 1678 on the University of Padua – “the Venetian University” since the fifteenth century. Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia was very well educated, especially in philosophy and theology. She also knew several languages: Latin, Greek, Spanish, Hebrew. Only part of her writings is kept, among which the most important are the four discourses on political problems.dr hab. Joanna Usakiewicz, Uniwersytet w Białymstoku, Katedra Bioetyki i Antropologii FilozoficznejUniwersytet w Białymstoku, Katedra Bioetyki i Antropologii FilozoficznejArystoteles, Dzieła wszystkie, tłum. zbiorowe, Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN, Warszawa 1990–1994, t. 1–6.Componimenti poetrici delle piu’ illustri rimatrici d’ogni secolo raccolti da Luisa Bergalli, Apresso Antonio Mora, Wenecja 1726.Deza M., Vita di Helena Lucretia Cornara Piscopia, Per Antonio Bosio, Wenecja 1686.Guyonnet de Vertron C.Ch., La nouvelle Pandore ou les femmes illustres du siècle de Louis le Grand, Chez la Veuve de Claude Mazuel, Paryż 1698.Helenae Lucretiae (Quae et Scholastica) Corneliae Piscopiae Virginis pietate et eruditione admirabilis; Ordini D. Benedicti privatis votis adscriptae Opera, quae quidem haberi potuerunt, ed. B. Bacchinus, Typis Hippolyti Rosati, Parma 1688.Lupis A., L’Eroina Veneta Ouero la Vita di Elena Lucretia Cornara Piscopia, Per il Curti, Wenecja 1689.Maschietto F.L., Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia (1646–1684). The First Woman in the World to Earn a University Degree, Saint Joseph’s University Press, Filadelfia 2006.Museum italicum seu collectio veterum scriptorum ex bibliothecis italicis eruta a d. Johanne Mabillon et d. Michaele Germain, Apud Viduam Edmundi Martin, Johannem Boudot, Stephanum Martin, Paryż 1687.Norwich J.J., Historia Wenecji, tłum. J. Bartoszewicz, Grupa Wydawnicza Foksal, Warszawa 2015.Seconda Corona intrecciata da varii Litterati co’fiori de’loro ingegni, per coronar di nuovo il molto rewerendo padre Giacomo Lubrani..., Apresso Antonio Bosio, Wenecja 1675.Ziegelbauer M., Historia rei literariae ordinis s. Benedicti in IV. partes distributa..., Sumptibus Martini Veith, Augsburd i Würzburg 1754.91-10327/t.t.9110