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.
"You go, Ragazza!"
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A New York woman shares the sacred, the profane, and the mundane aspects of her year in Venice. And beyond.
