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Sapienza University of Rome ( Italian Università di Roma "La Sapienza") is university in Rome, Italy. It is the largest European university and the most ancient of the city's three state-funded universities. In Italian, means "wisdom" or "knowledge".
History
La Sapienza was founded in 1303 by Pope Boniface VIII, as a Studium for ecclesiastical studies more under his control than the universities of Bologna and Padua.
In 1431, Pope Eugene IV introduced a new tax on wine, in order to raise funds for the university; the money was used to buy a palace that later hosted the Sant'Ivo church, " La Sapienza."
According to the Catholic Encyclopaedia, the university "remained closed during the entire pontificate of Clement VII". In 1870, La Sapienza stopped being the papal university and became the university of the capital of Italy. In 1935, the new university campus, planned by Marcello Piacentini, was completed.
As of the academic year 2006/7, La Sapienza consisted of twenty-one faculties and138,000 students. It has many locations in Rome, but is mainly situated in the Città Universitaria, near Termini Station.
Controversies
In January 15 2008 the Vatican cancelled a planned visit to La Sapienza University by Pope Benedict XVI who was to speak at the university ceremony launching the 2008 academic year due to protests by some students and professors.
Organization
Faculties
The university is divided into 21 faculties:
Research centers & major research groups
Centro Ricerche Aerospaziali, responsible for the Italian rocket program, based on San Marco platform
SPES - Development Studies, research centre on Development studies at La Sapienza
Famous scholars from La Sapienza
Sciences
Lucio Bini and Ugo Cerletti, psychiatrists
Corrado Böhm, computer scientist
Daniel Bovet, pharmacologist, Nobel prize winner
Benedetto Castelli, mathematician
Andrea Cesalpino, physician and botanist
Federigo Enriques, mathematician
Maria Montessori, physician and paedagogist
Vito Volterra, mathematician
Physicists
Via Panisperna boys:
Giovanni Battista Beccaria
Marcello Conversi
Giovanni Ciccotti
Giovanni Jona-Lasinio
Francesco Guerra
Luciano Maiani
Giorgio Parisi
Nicola Cabibbo, President of the Pontifical Academy Of Sciences
Humanities
Luigi Ferri, philosopher
Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, jurisconsult;
Umberto Cassuto, Hebrew language and Bible scholar
Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, poet
Count Angelo de Gubernatis, orientalist
Predrag Matvejevic, writer and academic
Santo Mazzarino, leading historian of ancient Rome and ancient Greece
Giuseppe Tucci, orientalist
Mario Liverani, orientalist
Paolo Matthiae, director of the archeological expedition of Ebla
Marcel Danesi, language scientist
Giuliano Amato, law professor and twice Prime Minister of Italy
Diego Laynez, second general of the Society of Jesus;
Giulio Mazzarino, politician and cardinal
Pierluigi Petrobelli, musicologist
La Sapienza Alumni
Severino Antinori, embryologist
Sergio Balanzino, ambassador
Pietro Belluschi, architect
Bernardo Bertolucci, director
Maurizio Cheli, astronaut
Domenico Comparetti, classic literature scholar
Gabriele D'Annunzio, poet
Carlo Fea, archaeologist
Massimiliano Fuksas, architect
Romaldo Giurgola, architect
Umberto Guidoni, astronaut
Antonio Monda, film director
Luca di Montezemolo, CEO
Scott O'Dell, novelist
Crescenzio Cardinal Sepe, cardinal
Abdirashid Ali Shermarke, president of Somalia
Points of interest
Orto Botanico dell'Università di Roma "La Sapienza", a botanical gardenFurther Information
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