Rome, Italy

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.

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  • Photos by Luca Borghi @ (July 2013), courtesy of Prof. Giovanna Gironi and Dr. Eugenio Nascetti.
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