In fourteenth-century Bologna, Alessandra Giliani, a brilliant young girl, defies convention and risks death in order to attend medical school at the university so that she can study anatomy.
year: 2010
call number/section: 1000
subjects: giliani, alessandra, 1307-1326, fiction, anatomy, fiction, historical fiction, gender role, sex role, bologna (italy), history, middle ages, 600-1500, fiction, italy, 0-1559, 1268-1492