The degree was conferred on 25 June 1678 in Padua Cathedral in the presence of the University authorities, professors of all the faculties, students, and most of the Venetian Senators, together with many invited guests from universities of Bologna, Perugia, Rome, and Naples. She was proclaimed Magistra et Doctrix Philosophiae [teacher and doctor in philosophy], thus becoming one of the first women to receive an academic degree from a university, and the first to receive a