In his letter to Isotta Nogarola, Lauro Quirini, a humanist scholar of the 15th century, provides advices related to her readings on dialectic and philosophy. Since Isotta has willingly devoted herself to the study of these “higher disciplines”, he composes a detailed curriculum for her, which consists of texts of advanced philosophical language and content, written either in Latin or ancient Greek. He aspires to serve as her teacher in these matters and to guide her through the intellectual path that she chose to follow, “overcoming her own nature”
