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'. Emblem of the University of Rome La Sapienza. ... Events On the 20 April, Pope Boniface VIII founds the University of Rome La Sapienza Edward I of England reconquers Scotland (see also: William Wallace, Wars of Scottish Independence) The Khilji Dynasty conquers Chittor Births Saint Birgitta, patron saint of Europe Deaths October 11 - Pope Boniface VIII Categories: 1303 ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Democratici di Sinistra) Area  - City Proper  1290 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost 4,000,000 1... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Democratici di Sinistra) Area  - City Proper  1290 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost 4,000,000 1...

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. Events On the 20 April, Pope Boniface VIII founds the University of Rome La Sapienza Edward I of England reconquers Scotland (see also: William Wallace, Wars of Scottish Independence) The Khilji Dynasty conquers Chittor Births Saint Birgitta, patron saint of Europe Deaths October 11 - Pope Boniface VIII Categories: 1303 ... Boniface VIII, né Benedict Gaetano ( 1235 - October 11, 1303) was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 1294 to 1303. ... The University of Bologna (Università di Bologna, UNIBO) is a university in Bologna, Italy. ... Gymnasivm Patavinum: The University shown in a 1654 woodcut The University of Padua (Università degli Studi di Padova, UNIPD) is one of the most well-renowned universities in Italy. ...

Church of Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza, by Borromini, was close to the La Sapienza see, taking its name.

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, which will be later called "La Sapienza". Download high resolution version (1536x2048, 505 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Download high resolution version (1536x2048, 505 KB) Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Events February 21 - The trial of Joan of Arc March 3 - Eugenius IV becomes Pope May 30 - In Rouen, France, 19-year old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake. ... Eugenius IV, né Gabriel Condulmer (1383 - February 23, 1447) was pope from March 3, 1431 to his death. ...

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. 1935 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

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 Roma Termini station. Faculty is the scholarly staff at colleges or universities, as opposed to the students or support staff. ... Western Europe is distinguished from Eastern Europe by differences of history and culture rather than by geography. ...

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

Diego Laynez (or Lainez), (1512-1565), the second general of the Society of Jesus, was born in Castile, and after studying at Alcala joined Ignatius of Loyola in Paris, being one of the six who with Loyola in August 1534 took the vow of missionary work in Palestine in the... The Society of Jesus — also known by its Latin name Societatis Iesu or its English variant Jesuit Order — is a Christian religious order of the Roman Catholic Church in direct service to the Pope. ... Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina (January 20, 1664 - January 6, 1718), Italian littérateur and jurisconsult, was born at Roggiano, a small town near Cosenza, in Calabria. ... Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni (November 21, 1692 - December 20, Italian poet. ... Giovanni Battista Beccaria (October 3, 1716 - May 27, 1781), Italian physicist, was born at Mondovi, and entered the religious order of the Pious Schools in 1732. ... Benedetto Castelli, born Antonio Castelli (Brescia, 1578 – Rome, 1643), took the name Benedetto upon entering the Benedictine Order in 1595. ... Vito Volterra (May 3, 1860 - October 11, 1940) was an Italian mathematician and physicist, best known for his contributions to mathematical biology. ... Count Angelo de Gubernatis (1840 - 1913), Italian man of letters, was born at Turin and educated there and at Berlin, where he studied philology. ... Luigi Ferri (June 15, 1826 - 1895), Italian philosopher, was born at Bologna. ... Umberto Cassuto, also known as Moshe David Cassuto, (1883 - 1951), was born in Florence, Italy. ... Federigo Enriques (5 January 1871 –14 June 1946) was an Italian mathematician, now known principally as the first to give a classification of algebraic surfaces in birational geometry, and other contributions in algebraic geometry. ... The Via Panisperna boys were the young scientists led by Enrico Fermi who, in 1934 in Rome, made the famous discovery of slow neutrons that opened the way to the realization of the nuclear reactor and the atomic bomb. ... Enrico Fermi (September 29, 1901 – November 28, 1954) was an Italian physicist most noted for his work on beta decay, the development of the first nuclear reactor, and for the development of quantum theory. ... Photographs of Nobel Prize Medals. ... Ettore Majorana (Catania, Sicily, 1906 - Tirrenian Sea (supposedly), 1938) was a great Italian physicist who abruptly disappeared at the age of 32. ... Bruno Pontecorvo Bruno Pontecorvo (Pisa, Italy 1913 - Dubna, Russia 1993) was an italian atomic physicist, early assistant of Enrico Fermi then author of numerous studies in high energy physics, especially on neutrinos. ... Franco Dino Rasetti (August 10, 1901 – December 5, 2001) was an Italian scientist. ... Emilio Gino Segrè (February 1, 1905 - April 22, 1989) was an Italian American physicist who, with Owen Chamberlain, won the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of the antiproton. ... Lucio Bini (1908-1964) was an Italian psychiatrist and professor at the University of Rome, Italy. ... Ugo Cerletti (September 26, 1877 - July 25, 1963) was an Italian neurologist. ... Giuseppe Tucci (1894 or 1895 - 1984), born in Macerata, Italy was an italian archaeologist, anthropologist, journalist and writer. ... Giovanni Ciccotti (born in 1943, Rome Italy) is an internationally acclaimed physicist and holds the position of Professor of Structure of matter at the University of Roma, La Sapienza. ... Daniel Bovet ( March 23, 1907- April 8, 1992) was a Swiss-born Italian pharmacologist who won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of drugs that block the actions of specific neurotransmitters. ... Paolo Matthiae is Professor of Archaeology and History of Art of the Ancient Near East in the University La Sapienza of Rome; he has been Director of the Ebla Expedition since 1963, and has published many articles and books about Ebla, and about the History of Art of Mesopotamia and... Ebla was an ancient city located in northern Syria, about 55 km southwest of Aleppo. ... Giovanni Amelino-Camelia is an astrophysicist of the University of Rome who works with gravity. ... Giuliano Amato (Torino May 13, 1938) is an Italian politician. ... This is a list of Prime Ministers 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
• Rick Lindeman, dutch scholar

Severino Antinori (born 1945) is an Italian gynecologist and embryologist. ... Sergio Balanzino was born on 20th June 1934 in Bologna, Italy. ... Maurizio Cheli Maurizio Cheli (born 4 May 1959) is an Italian astronaut and a veteran of one NASA space shuttle mission. ... Domenico Comparetti (June 27, 1835 - January 20, 1927), Italian scholar, was born at Rome. ... Gabriele DAnnunzio (12 March 1863 – 1 March 1938) was an Italian poet, writer, dramatist, daredevil and war hero, who went on to have a controversial role in politics as a precursor of the fascist movement. ... Romaldo (Aldo) Giurgola (1920, Rome, Italy – ) is an Italian-American academic architect, professor, and author. ... External link NASA Biography http://www. ... FIAT president Luca di Montezemolo The Marquis Luca Cordero di Montezemolo (b. ... Scott ODell (May 23, 1898–October 15, 1989) was a childrens author who wrote 26 books for young readers, along with three adult novels and four nonfiction books. ... His Eminence Crescenzio Cardinal Sepe (born June 2, 1943) is an Italian Cardinal and Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. ... Abdirashid Ali Shermake was President of Somalia from June 10, 1967 until October 15, 1969. ...

External links

• University of Rome La Sapienza web site www.uniroma1.it