Maria Agnesi
1718 – 1799
Italian

Mathematician, child prodigy, and author of a mathematical textbook. She demonstrated that mathematics was not a male preserve.

Contemporaries
1668–1744Giambattista Vico
1792–1878Pius IX
1798–1837Giacomo Leopardi
1797–1848Gaetano Donizetti
1725–1798Giacomo Casanova
1753–1824Jean Jacques Cambacérès
1743–1795Alessandro Cagliostro
1797–1878Carlo Blasis
1783–1851Giovanni Berchet
1738–1794Cesare Beccaria
1773–1856Agostino Bassi