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Isotta Gervasi (Born in Castiglione di Cervia on November 21, 1889 - died in Modena on June 17, 1967) was an Italian doctor, she was the first woman in Italy to carry out the profession of doctor. She worked in the Cervese area and, thanks to her human qualities, she acquired a legendary image over time, so much so that she was remembered as the "doctor of the poor" and the "angel on a bicycle".

Grazia Deledda, a close friend of Isotta who was spending her holidays in Cervia, dedicated an elzeviro, an article in the third page of a newspaper, to her in Corriere della Sera in August 1935:

"The doctor is beautiful, elegant, in the evening she transforms like the fairy Melusina, with her clothes and her dazzling jewels and her eyes and teeth even more dazzling: a fairy is also so in front of the sick bed, whether a prince or a worker, to whom, in addition to her skilful care, she generously gives bottles of ancient wine, chickens and flowers. Her name is Isotta."

Family & Education
Isotta Gervasi was born in Castiglione di Cervia on November 21, 1889. Isotta had 8 other sisters with herself being the oldest. One of her sisters named