A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Andre, (Calderini)
ANDRE, CALDERINI, (NOVELLA) an Italian Lady of great Learning and Beauty in the Fifteenth Century.
Jean Andre, her father, caused her to be instructed with the greatest care in every branch of polite literature; and afterwards made her study law, in which she made such great progress, that, when any thing happened to prevent his giving a lesson to his pupils, he sent her to supply his place. As he feared that her youth and beauty might distract the attention of her auditors, she was concealed from them by a curtain. To do honour to the name of his daughter and her mother, Andre published, under the title of Novella, his commentary upon the decretals of Gregory IX. She was given by him in marriage to John Calderini, a learned professor of the canon law.