University of Rome La Sapienza
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 Latin: Studium Urbis |
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| Established | 1303 |
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| Type | State-supported |
| Rector | Prof. Renato Guarini |
| Staff | 10,144 |
| Students | 147,000 |
| Location | Rome, Italy |
| Sports teams | CUS Roma (http://www.cusroma.org/) |
| Website | www.uniroma1.it/ |
University of Rome La Sapienza (Italian Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza) is the biggest European university and the most ancient university of Rome, Italy. It is one of the city's three public universities. In Italian, Sapienza means "wisdom."
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[edit] 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."
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.
Currently, La Sapienza has 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.
[edit] Organization
[edit] Faculties
The university is divided into 21 faculties:
- 1st Faculty of Architecture Ludovico Quaroni
- 2nd Faculty of Architecture Valle Giulia
- Faculty of Communication Sciences
- Faculty of Economics
- Faculty of Engineering
- Faculty of Humanities
- Faculty of Law
- Faculty of Literature and Philosophy
- Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Studies
- 1st Faculty of Medicine and Surgery
- 2nd Faculty of Medicine and Surgery
- Faculty of Oriental Studies
- Faculty of Pharmacy
- Faculty of Philosophy
- Faculty of Political Sciences
- 1st Faculty of Psychology
- 2nd Faculty of Psychology
- Faculty of Sociology
- Faculty of Statistics
- School for Aerospace Engineering
- School for Library and Archive Studies
[edit] Research centers & major research groups
- Centro Ricerche Aerospaziali, responsible for the Italian rocket program, based on San Marco platform
[edit] Famous scholars from La Sapienza
- Diego Laynez, second general of the Society of Jesus;
- Giulio Mazzarino, politician and cardinal
- Andrea Cesalpino, physician and botanist
- 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
- Marcello Conversi, physicist
- Lucio Bini and Ugo Cerletti, psychiatrists
- Giuseppe Tucci, orientalist
- Mario Liverani, orientalist
- Giovanni Ciccotti, physicist;
- Daniel Bovet, pharmacologist, Nobel prize winner
- Corrado Böhm, computer scientist
- Paolo Matthiae, director of the archeological expedition of Ebla
- Marcel Danesi, language scientist
- Nicola Cabibbo, physicist, President of the Pontifical Academy Of Sciences
- Giovanni Jona-Lasinio, physicist
- Francesco Guerra, physicist
- Luciano Maiani,physicist
- Giorgio Parisi, physicist
- Giuliano Amato, law professor and twice Prime Minister of Italy
[edit] La Sapienza Alumni
- Severino Antinori, embryologist
- Sergio Balanzino, ambassador
- Bernardo Bertolucci, director
- Maurizio Cheli, astronaut
- Domenico Comparetti, classic litterature scholar
- Gabriele D'Annunzio, poet
- Carlo Fea, archeologist
- Romaldo Giurgola, architect
- Umberto Guidoni, astronaut
- Luca di Montezemolo, CEO
- Scott O'Dell, novelist
- Crescenzio Cardinal Sepe, cardinal
- Abdirashid Ali Shermarke, president of Somalia
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- (Italian) University of Rome La Sapienza Website
