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Rh was of opinion that the apostle's injunction, in the first Epistle to the Corinthians, against women speaking in the church, admits of some exceptions, equally with that in the first Epistle to Timothy, against their teaching; it being certain, from the Acts, that Priscilla, a fellow labourer with the same apostle, instructed Apollos in the doctrine of the gospel). Afterwards Isabella went to Rome, in the pontificate of Paul III. She solved many knotty points in the books of the subtle Scotus, before the whole college of cardinals, and highly to their satisfaction. But an honour incomparably greater is, her having, in that capital, brought over to the Christian faith, a considerable number of Jews." . many works, some on religious matters, addressed to her sister nuns.—Besides which, The Lives of Holy Women; The Life of the Virgin Mary, in elegiac verse; six comedies; a poem, in hexameter verse, of the Acts of the Otho Cæsars, &c. not only versed in sculpture, but professed painting and music, in both of which she had reached no common excellence. Her first works were carvings in wood, and on peach-stones, eleven of which were in the museum of the Marquis Grassi, at Bologna, each