Background
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.
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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. She died young. Her father supposedly gave his work about the decretals of Pope Gregory IX the name Novellae to her memory.