A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Morella, Juliana
MORELLA, JULIANA,
A native of Barcelona, was born in 1595. Her father being obliged to leave Spain for a homicide, fled to Lyons, where he taught his daughter so well, that at the age of twelve, she publicly maintained theses in philosophy. In her tenth year, she is said to have held a public disputation in the Jesuit's College at Lyons. She was profoundly skilled in philosophy, divinity, music, jurisprudence, and philology. She entered into the convent of St Praxedia, at Avignon.