The Sapienza University of Rome ( it, Sapienza – Università di Roma), also called simply Sapienza or the University of Rome, and formally the Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", is a
public
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research university
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located in Rome, Italy. It is one of the
largest European universities by enrollments and
one of the oldest in history, founded in 1303. The university is one of the most prestigious Italian universities in the world, commonly ranking first in national rankings and in Southern Europe. In 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022 it ranked first in the world for classics and ancient history.
Most of the Italian ruling class studied at the Sapienza. The Sapienza has educated numerous notable alumni, including many
Nobel laureates
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,
Presidents of the European Parliament
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and
European Commissioner
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s, heads of several nations, notable religious figures, scientists and astronauts. In September 2018, it was included in the top 100 of the
QS World University Rankings
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Graduate Employability Ranking and in 2022 it was ranked best Italian University according to
ARWU
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.
History
![Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza -Rome](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Sant%27Ivo_alla_Sapienza_-Rome.jpg)
The Sapienza University of Rome was founded in 1303 with the
Papal bull ''In Supremae praeminentia Dignitatis'', issued on 20 April 1303 by
Pope Boniface VIII
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, as a ''Studium'' for ecclesiastical studies more under his control than the universities of
Bologna
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and
Padua
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, making it the first pontifical university.
In 1431
Pope Eugene IV
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completely reorganized the studium with the bull ''In supremae'', in which he granted masters and students alike the broadest possible privileges and decreed that the university should include the four schools of Law, Medicine, Philosophy and Theology. He introduced a new tax on wine to raise funds for the university; the money was used to buy a palace which later housed the
Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza
Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza (''lit.'' 'Saint Ivo at the Sapienza (University of Rome)') is a Roman Catholic church in Rome. Built in 1642–1660 by the architect Francesco Borromini, the church is widely regarded a masterpiece of Roman Baroque archite ...
church.
However, the university's days of splendour came to an end during the
sack of Rome in 1527, when the studium was closed, some of the professors having been killed and others dispersed.
Pope Paul III
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He came to ...
restored the university shortly after his election to the pontificate in 1534.
In the 1650s the university became known as Sapienza, meaning wisdom, a title it retains. In 1703, with his private funds,
Pope Clement XI
Pope Clement XI ( la, Clemens XI; it, Clemente XI; 23 July 1649 – 19 March 1721), born Giovanni Francesco Albani, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 23 November 1700 to his death in March 1721.
Clement XI w ...
purchased some land on the
Janiculum
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, where he created a botanical garden, which soon became the most celebrated in Europe through the labours of the Trionfetti brothers. The first complete history of the Sapienza University was written in 1803–1806 by
Filippo Maria Renazzi
Filippo Maria Renazzi (1745-1808) was an Italian Jurist and historian active in the Papal States of the eighteen century. During his life he was a well known scholar of criminal law, and nowadays he is mainly remembered for his history of the U ...
.
University students were newly animated during the 19th-century Italian revival. 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
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Biography
Born in Rome, he was the son of architect Pio Piacentini. When he was only 26, he was ...
, was completed.
On 15 January 2008 the
Vatican
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The Holy See
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cancelled a planned visit to La Sapienza University by
Pope Benedict XVI
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who was to speak at the university ceremony launching the 2008 academic year
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15 January 2008 due to protests by some students and professors. The title of the speech would have been 'The Truth Makes Us Good and Goodness is Truth'. Some students and professors protested in reaction to a 1990 speech that Pope Benedict XVI (then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger) gave in which he, in their opinion, endorsed the actions of the church against
Galileo
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in 1633.
Campuses
![Sapienza entrance (20040201351)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Sapienza_entrance_%2820040201351%29.jpg)
Sapienza University has many campuses in Rome, but its main campus is the ''Città Universitaria'' (University city), which covers near the
Roma Tiburtina Station. The university has satellite campuses outside Rome, the main one of which is in
Latina
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.
In 2011 a project was launched to build a campus with
residence halls
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near
Pietralata station, in collaboration with the
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region. To cope with the ever-increasing number of applicants, the Rector also approved a new plan to expand the ''Città Universitaria'', reallocate offices and enlarge faculties, as well as create new campuses for hosting local and foreign students.
The Alessandrina University Library (''Biblioteca Universitaria Alessandrina''), built in 1667 by
Pope Alexander VII
Pope Alexander VII ( it, Alessandro VII; 13 February 159922 May 1667), born Fabio Chigi, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 7 April 1655 to his death in May 1667.
He began his career as a vice- papal legate, an ...
, is the main library housing 1.5 million volumes; it has some important collections including ''collezione ciceroniana'' and ''Fondo Festa''.
Points of interest
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Orto Botanico dell'Università di Roma "La Sapienza"
The Orto Botanico dell'Università di Roma "La Sapienza" (12 hectares), also known as the Orto Botanico di Roma, is a botanical garden operated by the Sapienza University of Rome and located at Largo Cristina di Svezia 24, Rome, Italy. It is open ...
, a
botanical garden
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*
Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza
Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza (''lit.'' 'Saint Ivo at the Sapienza (University of Rome)') is a Roman Catholic church in Rome. Built in 1642–1660 by the architect Francesco Borromini, the church is widely regarded a masterpiece of Roman Baroque archite ...
*
San Pietro in Vincoli
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The '' Titulus S. Petri ...
: the cloister is part of the Engineering School
*
Villa Mirafiori: a Neo-Renaissance palace built during the 19th century, some rooms are decorated with fine frescoes. The Department of Philosophy is located in this building.
Academics
Since the 2011 reform, Sapienza University of Rome has eleven faculties and 65 departments. Today Sapienza, with 140,000 students and 8,000 among academic and technical and administrative staff, is the largest university in Italy. The university has significant research programmes in the fields of engineering,
natural sciences
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,
biomedical sciences
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and
humanities
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.
It offers 10 Masters Programmes taught entirely in English.
Ranking
As of the 2016 ''
Academic Ranking of World Universities
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'' (ARWU), Sapienza is positioned within the 151–200 group of universities and among the top 3% of universities in the world.
In 2016, the Center for World University Rankings ranked the Sapienza University of Rome as the 90th in the world and the top in Italy in its ''World University Rankings''.
According to the QS Graduate Employability Ranking 2020, Sapienza places first amongst Italian universities for the indicator on Alumni Outcomes thanks to the number of university graduates employed in large companies and in managerial positions.
In 2022, Sapienza University of Rome ranked 177th in the world in ''
QS World University Rankings
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''. The subject Classics and Ancient history of Sapienza is ranked the 1st in the world by ''QS World University Rankings'' by subject. As the same ranking, the subject Archaeology ranks the 10th. The subject Physics & Astronomy of Sapienza is ranked 36th, Arts and Humanities is ranked 39th, and Psychology is ranked 70th.
Admission
To cope with the large demand for admission to the university courses, some faculties hold a series of entrance examinations. The entrance test often decides which candidates will have access to the undergraduate course. For some faculties, the entrance test is only a mean through which the administration acknowledges the students' level of preparation. Students that do not pass the test can still enroll in their chosen degree courses but have to pass an additional exam during their first year.
Notable people
Some of the notable alumni and professors
Faculty and staff
Among the prominent scholars who have taught at the Sapienza University of Rome are architects
Ernesto Basile
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and
Bruno Zevi
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Zevi was born and died in ...
; chemist
Emanuele Paternò
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Biography
He was born in Palermo in 1847 as the Marquess of Sessa, in a branch of the House of Paternò. He stu ...
; jurists
Antonio Salandra
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,
Sabino Cassese
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Education and career
Cassese graduated (October 1956) ''summa cum laude'' in law from the University o ...
and
Giuliano Amato
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Later, he was Vice President of the Convention on the Future of Europe that drafted t ...
; mathematician
Vito Volterra
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Biography
Born in Anc ...
; pharmacologist and Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
Daniel Bovet
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; chemist and Nobel Laureate
Giulio Natta
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Biography ...
; philosophers
Luigi Ferri and
Augusto Del Noce
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Del Noce was born in Tuscany but he grew up and studied in Turin, which between the two World Wars was one of the mai ...
; physicist and Nobel Laureate in Physics
Enrico Fermi
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; political scientist
Roberto Forges Davanzati.
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Carlo Costamagna
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*
Cardinal Mazarin
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Mario Oriani-Ambrosini
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Oriani-Ambrosini was born in Rom ...
*
Corrado Gini
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, statistician
*
Lucio Bini
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and
Ugo Cerletti
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, psychiatrists
*
Corrado Böhm
Corrado Böhm (17 January 1923 – 23 October 2017) was a Professor Emeritus at the University of Rome "La Sapienza" and a computer scientist known especially for his contributions to the theory of structured programming, constructive mathemati ...
, computer scientist
*
Benedetto Castelli
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Life
Born in Brescia, Castelli studied at the University of Padua and l ...
, mathematician
*
Andrea Cesalpino
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In his works he classified plants according to their fruits and seeds, rather than alphabetically ...
, physician and botanist
*
Federigo Enriques
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, mathematician
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Maria Montessori
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, physician and paedagogist
*
Paola S. Timiras, biologist
*
Barnaba Tortolini
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, mathematician
*
Andrea Zitolo
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Zitolo, who was born in the Province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo, grew up in Ladispoli, a se ...
, physical-chemist
*
Edoardo Amaldi
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*
Oscar D'Agostino
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*
Ettore Majorana
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Bruno Pontecorvo
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*
Franco Rasetti
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*
Giovanni Battista Beccaria
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*
Giovanni Jona-Lasinio
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*
Luciano Maiani
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Academic history
In 1964 Luciano Maiani received his degree in ...
*
Domenico Pacini
Domenico Pacini ( Marino, February 20, 1878 – Rome, May 23, 1934) was an Italian physicist noted for his contributions to the discovery of cosmic rays.
Biography
He graduated in Physics at the University of Rome in 1902. Assistant at the "''Re ...
*
Antonio Signorini
*
Nicola Cabibbo
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Life
Cabibbo, son of a Sicilian lawyer, was born in Rome. He graduated in theoretical physics at the Università di Rom ...
, President of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences
*
Cora Sternberg
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Carlo Franzinetti, physicist
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Alessandro Piccolo (agricultural scientist)
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, Professor at University of Naples Federico II,
Humboldt Prize
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in Chemistry
*
Bruno Luiselli,
professor emeritus
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of Latin literature, studied the Barbarian.
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Salvatore Dierna
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, architect, professor of environmental design
Humanities
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Glauco Benigni, Author, journalist
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Anna Maria Bisi, archaeologist
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Cesare Borgia
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, Cardinal, condottiero and politician of the 15th century
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Piero Boitani
Piero Boitani (born 1947) is an Italian literary critic.
Life
Born in Rome, Boitani received his Ph.D. from Cambridge while teaching there and has taught in the University of Pescara and University of Perugia. He is Professor Emeritus of Compar ...
, literary critic, writer and academic
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Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina
Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina (20 January 1664 – 6 January 1718) was an Italian man of letters and jurist. He was born at Roggiano Gravina, a small town near Cosenza, in Calabria.
Biography
Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina was descended from a dist ...
, jurisconsult
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Silvia Berti
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Publication ...
, historian
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Lazarus Buonamici, renaissance humanist
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Umberto Cassuto
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, Hebrew language and Bible scholar
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Marcel Danesi
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, language scientist
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Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, poet
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Count Angelo de Gubernatis, orientalist
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Predrag Matvejević
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, writer and academic
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Santo Mazzarino
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Mazzarino was born in Catania. As a scholar and faculty mem ...
, leading historian of ancient Rome and ancient Greece
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Giuseppe Tucci, orientalist
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Mario Liverani
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, orientalist
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Paolo Matthiae
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He is a professor of History of Art of the Ancient Near East in the University of Rome La Sapienza; he has been Director of the Ebla Expedition since 1963—in fact, its discoverer— ...
, director of the archeological expedition of
Ebla
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Antonio Nibby
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Nibby was a critic of the history of ancient art and from 1812 in service to the Vatican worked to excavate the monuments of ...
, archaeologist
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Diego Laynez
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Diego Laynez, S.J. (sometimes spelled Laínez) (Spanish: ''Diego Laynez''), born in 1512 (Almazán, Sp ...
, second general of the
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Giulio Mazzarino, politician and cardinal
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Alessandro Roncaglia
Alessandro Roncaglia (1947) is an Italian economist. He was professor of economics at the Sapienza University of Rome
The Sapienza University of Rome ( it, Sapienza – Università di Roma), also called simply Sapienza or the University of Rom ...
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Giulio Salvadori
Giulio Salvadori (; 14 September 1862 in Monte San Savino, Tuscany – 7 October 1928 in Rome, Lazio) was an Italian poet, literary critic and educator.
Life
Salvadori was educated at the Sapienza University of Rome, where he became a friend of ...
, literary critic and poet
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Giuseppe Scaraffia
Giuseppe Scaraffia is an Italian writer and professor.
Biography
Giuseppe Scaraffia was born in Turin, Italy, in 1950. He graduated in Philosophy at the University of Milan with a thesis on the idea of happiness in Diderot. He has taught French Li ...
, literary critic
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Ugo Spirito Ugo Spirito (September 9, 1896, Arezzo – April 28, 1979, Rome) was an Italian philosopher; at first, a fascist political philosopher and subsequently an idealist thinker. He has also been an academic and a university teacher.
Early life
Spiri ...
, philosopher
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Giuseppe Ungaretti
Giuseppe Ungaretti (; 8 February 1888 – 2 June 1970) was an Italian modernist poet, journalist, essayist, critic, academic, and recipient of the inaugural 1970 Neustadt International Prize for Literature. A leading representative of the experim ...
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Bernardino Varisco Bernardino Varisco (April 20, 1850 – October 21, 1933), was an Italian philosopher and a Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Rome La Sapienza from 1905 to 1925.
Life
Bernardino Varisco was born on April 20, 1850 in Chiari ...
, philosopher
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Musine Kokalari
Musine Kokalari (10 February 1917 – 14 August 1983) was an Albanian prose writer and politician in Albania's pre-communist period. She was the founder of the Social-Democratic Party of Albania in 1943. Kokalari was the first published female wr ...
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Albanian
Albanian may refer to:
*Pertaining to Albania in Southeast Europe; in particular:
**Albanians, an ethnic group native to the Balkans
**Albanian language
**Albanian culture
**Demographics of Albania, includes other ethnic groups within the country ...
writer
Collaboration
The university entered into a collaboration with the Bahraini government and established the King Hamad Chair in Interfaith Dialogue and Peaceful co-existence in November 2018. The chair was established for entailing direct funding from the Bahraini government to La Sapienza.
In July 2021 Italian MP Laura Boldrini and chairwoman of the Standing Committee on Human Rights wrote a letter criticizing the collaboration. In her letter, Boldrini stressed the human rights situation in the Kingdom of Bahrain. The letter was a follow-up to a hearing that took place on 14 June 2021, addressing the systematic violation of human rights, the death penalty, and the condition of detention of the prisoners of conscience in the country. Boldrini drew a contrast between the values of Bahrain and that of a democracy, like Italy.
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European Spatial Development Planning
The European Spatial Development Planning or ESDP-Network seeks to promote education, research and professional training in spatial planning across European countries, in collaboration with many partners in other regions of the world. To this pur ...
ESDP-Network
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List of medieval universities
The list of medieval universities comprises universities (more precisely, '' studia generalia'') which existed in Europe during the Middle Ages.Rüegg 1992, pp. XIX–XX It also includes short-lived foundations and European educational ins ...
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