The Most Learned Woman A Celebration of the 340th Anniversary of the Commencement of Elena Lucrezia Cornaro-Piscopia • Lecture 5:30pm Performance 7:30pm Class of 1951 Reading Room The Cornaro Room Professor Patrizia Bettella, A Kairos Italy Theater production Professor Patrizia Bettella by and with Laura Caparrotti (University of Alberta, Canada) is with Nyssa Duchow (Violin) the author of The Ugly Woman: Set by Sarah Edkins Transgressive Aesthetic Models in The Most Learned Woman is an Italian Poetry from the Middle Ages original theater piece that tells the to the Baroque (2005). She has story of Elena Cornaro Piscopia, recently published the article: the first woman to earn a “Women and the Academies in doctorate from a university. Seventeenth-Century Italy: Elena Her story starts in Venice, in Lucreazia Cornaro Piscopia’s Role a beautiful palace on the water. in Literary Acasdemies” (2018). Voices of her life are told by a At present she is working on a narrator who is going to bring new article on Cornaro Piscopia, the audience back to 1600, titled “Cornaro Piscopia and the while a violin will give voice to Mouches Galantes.” Elena’s feelings. Friday November 9, 2018 Frederick Ferris Thompson Memorial Library To reserve tickets, please visit vassarpresents.tix.com or email [email protected] Presented with the support of the Vassar College Libraries, the Creative Arts Across Disciplines, the Italian Department, the Dean of Faculty Office, the Office of Alumnae/i Engagement, and the Garnsey Fund. Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations or information on accessibility should contact the Campus Activities Office, (845) 437-5370. .