There is no institution called "the University of Rome", but there are several universities in The Roman Colosseum Rome (Italian and Latin Roma) is the capital city of Italy, and of its Lazio region. It is located on the lower Tiber river, near the Mediterranean Sea, at 41°50N, 12°15E. The Vatican City State, a sovereign enclave within Rome, is the seat...
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University of Rome La Sapienza is the most ancient university of Rome, Italy. In Italian, Sapienza means wisdom. La Sapienza was founded in 1303 by Pope Boniface VIII, as a Studium for ecclesiastical studies. In 1431, Pope Eugenius IV introduces a new tax on wine, in order to raise funds...
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The University of Rome must be distinguished from the "Studium Generale apud Curiam", established by Innocent IV in 1244-5 at Lyons for the convenience of the members of the pontifical Court and of the persons who flocked from all over the world to tho Holy See.
In the fifteenth century the Studium Generale was abolished in favour of the University of Rome.
Many professors at Rome as at Bologna had to resign their chairs on account of their political opinions, which resulted in the university failing to keep pace with the universities in other states, for instance, the chairs of public and commercial law were not founded till 1848; and that of political economy still later.
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