A New York woman shares the sacred, the profane, and the mundane aspects of her year in Venice. And beyond.
10 September 2008
Fun feminist factoid
Quick! Who was the very first woman in the world to earn a university degree?
She was a Venetian noblewoman named Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia, and she was born in a palazzo right here, just a stone’s throw from Rialto Bridge.
