A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Bucca, (Dorothea)
BUCCA, (DOROTHEA) a learned Lady of Bologna, in the fifteenth Century; Daughter of a great Philopher and Physician,
Was, from her childhood, instructed in literature, and profited so well by her studies, that she acquired the dignity and insignia of a doctor in the university; and, soon after, in the year 1436, she had a professorship there, and taught for many years with great reputation.
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