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Encyclopedia > University of Ferrara

The University of Ferrara (Università degli Studi di Ferrara) is main university of the city of Ferrara in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. In the years prior to the First World War the University of Ferrara, with more than 500 students, was the best attended of the free universities in Italy. Today there are approximately 12,000 students enrolled at the University of Ferrara with nearly 400 degrees granted each year. The teaching staff number 600, including 223 researchers. A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees at all levels (bachelor, master, and doctor) in a variety of subjects. ... Ferrara is a town, an archiepiscopal see and a province in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, capital city of the province of Ferrara. ... Emilia Romagna, painting by Frans Koppelaar Emilia-Romagna is an administrative region of Northern Italy comprising the two historic regions of Emilia and Romagna. ... Combatants Allies: • Serbia, • Russia, • France, • Romania, • Belgium, • British Empire and Dominions, • United States, • Italy, • ...and others Central Powers: • Germany, • Austria-Hungary, • Ottoman Empire, • Bulgaria Casualties 5 million military, 3 million civilian (full list) 3 million military, 3 million civilian (full list) World War I, also known as the First World...


History

The University of Ferrara was founded on March 4, 1391 by Marquis Alberto V D'Este with the permission of Pope Boniface IX. The Studium Generale was inaugurated on St. Luke's Day (October 18), that same year with courses in law, arts and theology. After the unification of Italy, the University of Ferrara became a free university having Faculties in Law and Mathematics, a three-year course in Medicine (reduced to two years in 1863-64) as well as Schools of Veterinary Medicine (abolished in 1876), Pharmacy and for public Notaries. March 4 is the 63rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (64th in leap years). ... Events August 5 - Anti-Jewish riots erupt in Toledo, Spain and Barcelona. ... Boniface IX, né Piero Tomacelli (1356 – October 1, 1404), was the second Roman Pope of the Western Schism from November 2, 1389 – until October 1, 1404). ... Luke was, according to tradition, the painter of the first icon Luke the Evangelist (Greek Λουκάς Loukas) is said by tradition to be the author of both the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, the third and fifth books of the New Testament. ... October 18 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in Leap years). ... In Western culture, canon law is the law of the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches. ... A precise definition of the arts can be contentious, but the following areas of activity are usually included: Art / Visual arts Architecture Crafts Dance Drawing Film Literature Music Painting Photography Pottery Sculpture Theater Unlike art, design focuses less on the aesthetics of a thing and more on the functionality of... Theology is reasoned discourse concerning God (Greek θεος, theos, God, + λογος, logos, word or reason). It can also refer to the study of other religious topics. ... Italian unification process Italian unification (called in Italian the Risorgimento, or Resurgence) was the political and social process that unified disparate countries of the Italian peninsula into the single nation of Italy between the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. ... A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees at all levels (bachelor, master, and doctor) in a variety of subjects. ... Mathematics is often defined as the study of topics such as quantity, structure, space, and change. ... Medicine is the branch of health science and the sector of public life concerned with maintaining human health or restoring it through the treatment of disease and injury. ... 1863 (MDCCCLXIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar). ... 1864 (MDCCCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... Veterinary medicine is the application of medical, diagnostic, and therapeutic principles to companion, domestic, exotic, wildlife, and production animals. ... 1876 (MDCCCLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Saturday. ...


Some notable instructors include:

Giovanni Bianchini (in Latin, Johannes Blanchinus) (1410-ca. ...

See also


This is a list of Italian universities. ...

Flag of Italy List of Italian universities Flag of Italy
Ancona | Bari | Bari Polytechnic | Basilicata | Bergamo | Bologna | Collegio Superiore of Bologna | Brescia | Bolzano | Cagliari | Calabria | Camerino | Cassino | Catania | Chieti | Catanzaro | Ferrara | Florence | Foggia | Genoa | Insubria | L'Aquila | Lecce | Macerata | Messina | Milan | Milan Bicocca | Milan Polytechnic | Milan Catholic University | Milan Bocconi | Milan IULM | Milan San Raffaele | Modena | Molise | Naples Federico II | Naples 2nd University | Naples Parthenope | Naples Eastern Institute | Naples Benincasa | Padua | Palermo | Parma | Pavia | Perugia | Perugia Foreigners | Eastern Piedmont | Pisa | Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa | Pisa Sant'Anna | Reggio Calabria | Rome La Sapienza | Rome Tor Vergata | Rome 3rd University | Rome Motor Sciences | Rome LUISS | Rome S. Pio V | Rome Maria SS. Assunta | Rome Biomedical | Salerno | Sannio | Sassari | Siena | Siena Foreigners | Teramo | Turin | Turin Polytechnic | Trento | Trieste | Trieste Advanced School | Tuscia | Udine | Urbino | Aosta Valley | Venice | Venice Architecture | Verona

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