Dorotea Bucca (also Dorotea Bocchi) was an Italian physician. Little is known of her life, except that she held a chair of medicine and philosophy at the University of Bologna

University of Bologna

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 for over forty years from 1390. Her father had previously held the same chair.

The attitude to educating women in medical fields in Italy

Italy

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 appears to have been more liberal than in England

England

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 prior to the 19th century. Anna Morandi Manzolini

Anna Morandi Manzolini

Anna Morandi Manzolini was a lecturer of anatomy and sculptor of anatomical models in wax. She was married to Giovanni Manzolini, a professor of anatomy at the University of Bologna. When her husband became ill with tuberculosis, she received special permission to lecture in his place. She became...

 was a Professor of Anatomy at the University of Bologna in 1760, and other Italian women whose contributions in medicine have been recorded include Trotula of Salerno

Trotula of Salerno

Trotula can refer to Trotula of Salerno or the Trotula texts. Trotula of Salerno was a female physician who worked in Salerno, Italy. Several writings about women’s health have been attributed to her, including Diseases of Women, Treatments for Women, and Women’s Cosmetics...

 (11th century), Abella

Abella

Abella was a 14th century Italian physician who taught at the Salerno school of medicine. Abella wrote medical treatises in verse, and lectured on, among other topics, the nature of women. Her published medical treatises, De atrabile and De natura seminis humani , have not survived.-References:*...

, Jacobina Félicie, Alessandra Giliani

Alessandra Giliani

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, Rebecca de Guarna

Rebecca de Guarna

Rebecca de Guarna was an Italian physician and surgeon and author in the 14th century. She is one of the few woman physicians known from the middle ages....

, Margarita, Mercuriade

Mercuriade

Mercuriade was an Italian physician, surgeon and medical author in the 14th century. She is one of the few woman physicians known from the middle ages....

 (14th century), Constance Calenda

Constance Calenda

Constance Calenda was an Italian surgeon specialising in diseases of the eyeCalenda was the daughter of Salvator Calenda, the dean of the faculty of medicine at the University of Salerno in about 1415, and afterwards dean of the faculty at Naples...

, Calrice di Durisio

Calrice di Durisio

Calrice di Durisio was an Italian physician and surgeon in the 15th century.She was educated at the University of Salerno and belonged to the minority of female students of her time period. She specialized in the diseases of the eye.- References :*...

 (15th century), Constanza, Maria Incarnata and Thomasia de Mattio.