Novella d'Andrea [SEP] father
Novella d'Andrea
Novella d'Andrea, (b. 1312 in Bologna – d. 1333 (or around 1346 or 1366)), was an Italian legal scholar and professor in law at the university of Bologna.
As the daughter of Giovanni d'Andrea, professor in Canon law at the university of Bologna, she was educated by her father and reportedly took over his lectures at the university during his absence. According to Christine de Pisan, she talked to the students through a curtain so they would not be distracted by her beauty. Some
he had a daughter, Novella, so accomplished in law as to be able to read her father's lectures in his absence, and so beautiful that she had to read behind a curtain lest her face should distract the attention of the students. He was also the father of Bettina d'Andrea.
He is reported to have died at Bologna of the Black Death in 1348, and an epitaph in the church of the Dominicans in which he was buried (calling him "Rabbi Doctorum, Lux, Censor, Normaque Morum"