Maria Dalle Donne's house and obstetrics school

In this house of Bologna (via Saragozza, 147 - now 22), pioneer woman physician Maria Dalle Donne lived and directed an obstetrics school, in connection with the University of Bologna, since 1804 (during the Napoleonic government of Italy) to 1842, the year of her death¹.

• Photos by Luca Borghi ti.supmacinu|ihgrob.l#| (July 2013), courtesy of Prof. Giovanna Gironi and Dr. Eugenio Nascetti.

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Footnotes

1. See Carolina Bonafede, Cenni biografici e ritratti d'insigni donne bolognesi, raccolti dagli storici più accreditati, Sassi, Bologna 1845, pp. 124-132.