She was the only woman represented in the Paranymph of the University of Barcelona, where she was also the first Spanish woman to earn a university degree. A doctor in law, abbess, writer and translator, she learned to speak 14 languages. She was born in Barcelona, on Carrer de la Cendra, into a family of Jewish converts with a respectable social and economic position. She studied at the Monges Dominiques, where she soon stood out for her talent. Bright and precocious, she obtained her doctorate in Law from the University of Avignon at just 13 years old, an unprecedented historical milestone. At that time, women rarely had access to any kind of academic knowledge, let alone a university. She was the abbess of the Avignon Dominican Convent, where she devoted herself to writing and translation. Among her contributions, focused on spirituality, her commentaries on the Tratado de la Vida Espiritual, by St Vicent Ferrer, stand out. She was admired by great intellectual figures, such as Lope de Vega, who dedicated verses to her wit and intellectual virtue.
She was the only woman represented in the Paranimf of the University of Barcelona, where she was also the first Spanish woman to earn a university degree. A doctor in law, abbess, writer and translator, she learned to speak 14 languages.