Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia Tercentenary Celebration Collection
Content Description
Correspondence, promotional materials and newspaper/article clippings relating to the tercentenary celebration of the birth of Elena Piscopia (1646-1684), first woman to receive a PhD in 1678.
Dates
- Creation: 1970 - 1978
Conditions Governing Access
Most manuscripts collections at the Georgetown University Booth Family Center for Special Collections are open to researchers; however, restrictions may apply to some collections. Collections stored off site require a minimum of three days for retrieval. For use of all manuscripts collections, researchers are advised to contact the Booth Family Center for Special Collections in advance of any visit.
Biographical / Historical
Elena Cornaro Piscopia (also known in English as Helen Cornaro), was a Venetian philosopher of noble descent who, in 1678, became one of the first women to receive an academic degree from a university, and the first to receive a PhD. Pisocopia was born June 5, 1646, at the Palazzo Loredan, Venice; and died July 26, 1684, in Padua, at age 38.
Further biographical details available from the Encyclopedia Britannica (URL: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elena-Cornaro).
Extent
0.84 Linear Feet (2 Hollinger document cases.)
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Gabrielle E. Forbush, January 1979.
- Title
- Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia Tercentenary Celebration Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Lisette Matano, Georgetown University Library Booth Family Center for Special Collections, Washington, D.C.
- Date
- 2017
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository
Lauinger Library, 5th Floor
37th and O Streets, N.W.
Washington DC 20057
speccoll@georgetown.edu