Bettisia Gozzadini also known as Bitisia Biltisia and Beatrix[5] (1209 – 2 November 1261),[6]: 11  was a Bolognese jurist who lectured at the University of Bologna from about 1239.

[6]: 6  As a young woman, she dressed as a man; it is not known whether this was because of social pressures or was from personal choice.

[6]: 9 Gozzadini died with two other women and four students on 2 November 1261, when flooding of the Idice caused the collapse of the house where they had taken refuge after fleeing from her villa on the river between Mezzolara [it] and Riccardina, now in the comune of Budrio to the east of Bologna.

[8][9]: 218  Her later fame as a lawyer might have been prompted by an historical defense of the female doctorate written by Alessandro Macchiavelli in the 18th century.

[10] A terracotta bust of her, one of a series of twelve representations of notable Bolognese women by the un-named "Scultore di Casa Fibbia", dates from the late seventeenth century.