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The plaque of the first female graduate

The bilingual plaque of 2021 in Calle del Carbon: Italian and English, carved in Trani marble
The bilingual plaque of 2021 in Calle del Carbon: Italian and English, carved in Trani marble Photo: Maxmarwiki, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

A light-coloured marble plaque on a passageway wall, with the writing in two languages: yet it tells of a record. ’Here was born in the year 1646 Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, the first woman to graduate in the world’.

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