Note 116 — Chapter III
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The full title of this celebrated discourse is Oratio qua ostenditur Artium liberalium studia a Fæmineo sexu neutiquam abhorere, habita a Maria de Agnesis Rhetoricæ Operam Dante, Anno ætatis suæ nono nondum exacto, die 18, Augusti, 1727. It is found at the end of a work entitled Discorsi Academici di varj autori Viventi intorno agli Stuj delle Donne in Padova, 1729. This subject, it may be remarked, frequently engaged the attention of Maria Gaetana as she advanced in years, for we find it among the questions discussed in her Propositiones Philosophicæ, pp. 2 and 3, Mediolani, 1738.