Maria Pellegrina Amoretti (12 May 1756 – 12 November 1787), was an Italian lawyer.

[2] When she was 20 (in 1777), she became a Doctor of Laws, at the University of Pavia, where Columbus was educated.

[3] She also received a degree in philosophy from the university.

[4] Amoretti initially applied to the University of Turin, but was rejected because she was a woman, and her graduation from the University of Pavia in 1777 is considered by historian Giulio Natali to be the “most famous graduation of the eighteenth century.”[4] Though Amoretti died at the age of 31, she left a manuscript on dowry laws, specifically on marriage in Roman law,[5] which was published posthumously in 1788 by a relative, Carlo Amoretti.

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