University of Rome La Sapienza
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| University of Rome "La Sapienza" | |
| Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" | |
| Image:Uni-Roma-LaSapienza-logo.png | |
| Latin name | Studium Urbis |
| Motto | -- |
| Established | 1303 |
| Type | State-supported |
| Rector | Prof. Renato Guarini |
| Location | Rome, Italy |
| Enrollment | 147,000 students (2004) |
| Teaching staff | 10,144 (2004) |
| Member | -- |
| Sports teams | CUS Roma (http://www.cusroma.org/) |
| Homepage | www.uniroma1.it/ |
University of Rome La Sapienza (Università della Sapienza) is the most ancient university of Rome, Italy. It is one of the city's three universities. In Italian, Sapienza means 'wisdom'.
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.
Image:Borromini SantIvo.jpg In 1431, Pope Eugenius IV introduces a new tax on wine, in order to raise funds for the university; the money is used to buy a palace next to St. Ivo church, which will be later called "La Sapienza".
In 1870 it stopped being the papal university and became the university of the capital of Italy. In 1935, the new university campus, planned under Mussolini, was completed.
Currently, La Sapienza offers 21 faculties to its 147,000 students. and is the largest university in Western Europe. It has many locations in Rome, but is mainly situated in the Città Universitaria, near Termini Station.
Famous scholars from La Sapienza
- Diego Laynez, second general of the Society of Jesus;
- Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, jurisconsult;
- Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, poet
- Giovanni Battista Beccaria, physicist
- Benedetto Castelli mathematician
- Vito Volterra, mathematician
- Count Angelo de Gubernatis, orientalist
- Luigi Ferri, philosopher
- Umberto Cassuto, Hebrew language and Bible scholar
- Federigo Enriques, mathematician
- Via Panisperna boys, physicists:
- Enrico Fermi, Nobel Prize winner;
- Edoardo Amaldi
- Oscar D'Agostino
- Ettore Majorana
- Bruno Pontecorvo
- Franco Rasetti
- Emilio G. Segrè, Nobel prize winner
- Lucio Bini and Ugo Cerletti, psychiatrists
- Giuseppe Tucci, orientalist
- Giovanni Ciccotti, physicist;
- Daniel Bovet, pharmacologist, Nobel prize winner
- Paolo Matthiae, director of the archeological expedition of Ebla
- Giovanni Amelino-Camelia, astrophysicist
- Giuliano Amato, law professor and twice Prime Minister of Italy
La Sapienza Alumni
- Severino Antinori, embryologist
- Sergio Balanzino, ambassador
- Maurizio Cheli, astronaut
- Domenico Comparetti, classic litterature scholar
- Gabriele D'Annunzio, poet
- Romaldo Giurgola, architect
- Umberto Guidoni, astronaut
- Luca di Montezemolo, CEO
- Scott O'Dell, novelist
- Crescenzio Cardinal Sepe, cardinal
- Abdirashid Ali Shermarke, president of Somalia
External links
- University of Rome La Sapienza web site www.uniroma1.it
