University of Rome La Sapienza

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University of Rome "La Sapienza"
Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza"
Image:Logo Sapienza 2006 - 3D.jpg Latin: Studium Urbis
Established	1303
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."

1 History
2 Organization
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] History

Image:Borromini SantIvo.jpg

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
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

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