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"Well, their name is prettier than Conigherazzo," said Ercole. "It is Lira Erre Gheraffe fonne Lira." "Ah! what a divine appellation!" exclaimed Nino enthusiastically, pulling his hat over his eyes to meditate upon the name at his leisure. "And her name is Edvigia," volunteered the maestro. That is the Italian for Hedwig, or Hadwig, you know.
Of any participation of women in intellectual life there could be no question until the Renaissance, although we do meet here and there with isolated exceptions, a few ladies of high degree like Roswitha of Gandersheim and Hadwig, Duchess of Swabia, niece of Otto the Great, and Heloise. The learning was exclusively scholastic, and from any share in that women were barred.
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