Show women of their period in the great momentum of tho the women movement which gains new victims i ma every day ono one is inclined to overlook the fact that woman was a power morally socially and intellectually in the fifteenth century as well as the nineteenth that the doors of the universities were open to her not only to study but to teach within their sacred precincts in the university of salamanca she had a place and when isabella or of spain desired to acquire tho the latin tongue it was to a woman that she turned for a tutor in italy even in tho the thirteenth century a noble florentine lady won the palm of oratory in a public contest in florence with learned doctors from all over the world new york sun |