The Expert Elena

Elena came to be an expert musician, mastering the harpsichord, the clavichord, the harp, and the violin. In her late teens and early twenties, she became interested in physics, astronomy, and linguistics. Carlo Rinaldini, her tutor in philosophy, and at that point the Chairman of Philosophy at the University of Padua, published a book in 1668 written in Latin and centering on geometry. The book was dedicated to a twenty-two-year-old Elena.