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Sapienza University of Rome (Italian
Italian language

Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
 Università di Roma "La Sapienza") is a coeducational, autonomous state university in Rome
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
, Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
. It is the largest Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
an university and the most ancient of the city's three state-funded universities; Sapienza was founded in 1303, Tor Vergata
University of Rome Tor Vergata

The University of Rome Tor Vergata is a university located in Rome, Italy, and founded in 1982....
 in 1982, and Roma Tre
Third University of Rome

Roma Tre University is a university located in Rome, Italy, and founded in 1992. It currently offers 54 undergraduate degree programs, 75 Masters degree programs, 16 doctorate schools, and 5 Ph.D....
 in 1992. In Italian
Italian language

Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
, sapienza means "wisdom" or "knowledge".

According to the Academic Ranking of World Universities
Academic Ranking of World Universities

The Academic Ranking of World Universities is compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University?s Institute of Higher Education and includes major institutes of higher education ranked according to a formula that took into account alumni winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals , staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals , ?highly-cited researchers...
 published by the Institute of Higher Education of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Sapienza University of Rome ranks among top 30 european universities and as one of the best Italian Universities, together with the Universities of Milan, Pisa and Bologna.

a Sapienza was founded in 1303 by Pope Boniface VIII
Pope Boniface VIII

Pope Boniface VIII , born Benedetto Caetani, was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 1294 to 1303....
 who issued the bull "In supremae praeminentia dignitatis" on 20 April, 1303, as a Studium for ecclesiastical studies more under his control than the universities of Bologna
University of Bologna

The University of Bologna is the oldest continually operating degree-granting university in the world:, the word 'university' being first used by this institution at its foundation....
 and Padua
University of Padua

The University of Padua , located in Padua, Italy, was founded in 1222. It is among the earliest of the university and the third oldest in Italy....
.






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Sapienza University of Rome (Italian
Italian language

Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
 Università di Roma "La Sapienza") is a coeducational, autonomous state university in Rome
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
, Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
. It is the largest Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
an university and the most ancient of the city's three state-funded universities; Sapienza was founded in 1303, Tor Vergata
University of Rome Tor Vergata

The University of Rome Tor Vergata is a university located in Rome, Italy, and founded in 1982....
 in 1982, and Roma Tre
Third University of Rome

Roma Tre University is a university located in Rome, Italy, and founded in 1992. It currently offers 54 undergraduate degree programs, 75 Masters degree programs, 16 doctorate schools, and 5 Ph.D....
 in 1992. In Italian
Italian language

Italian is a Romance languages spoken by about 63 million people as a first language, primarily in Italy. In Switzerland, Italian is one of four Linguistic geography of Switzerlands....
, sapienza means "wisdom" or "knowledge".

According to the Academic Ranking of World Universities
Academic Ranking of World Universities

The Academic Ranking of World Universities is compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University?s Institute of Higher Education and includes major institutes of higher education ranked according to a formula that took into account alumni winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals , staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals , ?highly-cited researchers...
 published by the Institute of Higher Education of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Sapienza University of Rome ranks among top 30 european universities and as one of the best Italian Universities, together with the Universities of Milan, Pisa and Bologna.

History

Borromini Santivo
La Sapienza was founded in 1303 by Pope Boniface VIII
Pope Boniface VIII

Pope Boniface VIII , born Benedetto Caetani, was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 1294 to 1303....
 who issued the bull "In supremae praeminentia dignitatis" on 20 April, 1303, as a Studium for ecclesiastical studies more under his control than the universities of Bologna
University of Bologna

The University of Bologna is the oldest continually operating degree-granting university in the world:, the word 'university' being first used by this institution at its foundation....
 and Padua
University of Padua

The University of Padua , located in Padua, Italy, was founded in 1222. It is among the earliest of the university and the third oldest in Italy....
. The pope established it in order that Rome
Rome

Rome is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city, with 2,724,347 residents in an urban area of some ....
 might become the fruitful mother of science.

In 1431, Pope Eugene IV
Pope Eugene IV

Pope Eugene IV , born Gabriele Condulmer, was Pope from March 3, 1431, to his death....
 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 Faculties of Law, Medicine, Philosophy and Theology. He 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 alla Sapienza
Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza

The Church of Saint Yves at the Sapienza is a Roman Catholic churches of Rome Rome. The church is considered a masterpiece of Roman Baroque church architecture, built in 1642-1660 by the architect Francesco Borromini....
 church, "La Sapienza."

The university's days of splendor, however, came to an end during the sack of Rome in 1527 when the 'studium' was closed, the professors were dispersed, and some were killed. Pope Paul III
Pope Paul III

Pope Paul III , born Alessandro Farnese, was Pope of the Roman Catholic Church from 1534 to his death in 1549. He also called the Council of Trent in 1545....
 restored the university shortly after his ascension to the pontificate in 1534.

In the 1650s the university became known as Sapienza meaning wisdom, which title it retained until now. Pope Clement XI
Pope Clement XI

Pope Clement XI , born Giovanni Francesco Albani, was Pope from 1700 until his death....
 purchased some land, in 1703, with his private funds on the Janiculum
Janiculum

Janiculum is a hill in western Rome. Although the second-tallest hill , in the contemporary city of Rome, the Janiculum does not figure among the proverbial Seven Hills of Rome, being west of the Tiber and outside the boundaries of the ancient city....
, where he made a botanical garden, which soon became the most celebrated in Europe through the labours of the brothers Trionfetti.

During the 19th-century Italian revival, a new fervor animated university students. 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
Marcello Piacentini

Marcello Piacentini was an Italian people architect and urban theorist....
, was completed. On 27 October 1935, the university became an aggregate of all the institutions of higher learning of university rank in the city of Rome. Since 1935 Sapienza University has been under the control of the Italian Government.

As of the academic year 2007/2008, La Sapienza consisted of twenty-one faculties
Faculty (university)

A faculty is a division within a university comprising one subject area, or a number of related subject areas . The concept of a university with different faculties for different subjects dates back to Al-Azhar University, which had individual faculties for a Madrasah and theological seminary, Sharia and Fiqh, Arabic grammar, Islamic astronom...
 and 140,250 students. The Alessandrina University Library founded in 1670 is the main library housing 1,500,000 volumes. Sapienza University has many locations in Rome, but is mainly situated in the Città Universitaria covering 439,000 square meter, near Termini Station. Outside of Rome the university has four campuses; Civitavecchia
Civitavecchia

Civitavecchia is a town and comune of the province of Rome in the central Italy region of Latium. A Port on the Tyrrhenian Sea, it is located 80 kilometers west-north-west of Rome, across the Mignone river....
, Latina
Latina

Latina is the feminine form of the term Latino.Latina may also refer to:*Province of Latina, a province in Latium , Italy**Latina, Italy, the capital of the province of Latina...
, Pomezia
Pomezia

Pomezia is a municipality in the province of Rome, Lazio, central Italy. In 2007 it had some 58,000 inhabitants....
, and Rieti
Rieti

Rieti is a town in Lazio, central Italy, with a population of c. 47,700. It is the capital of province of Rieti.The town centre rests on a small hilltop, commanding a wide plain at the southern edge of an ancient lake....
.

Sapienza Today


Today Sapienza University of Rome is Rome number one university. Lately, in order to face the increasing number of students applying to the institution, the Rector has signed a plan in order to amplfy the "Citta' Univesitaria" and, in collaboration with the administration of Rome, granted the creation of new campuses to host local and foreign students, together with the new reallocation of officies and the enlargment of faculties. In addition, in these past years, thanks to the new program, "Sapienza Innovation", the university has strongly improved research in engineering, bio-medical sciences and humanities. Lately,cooperation with major english and american universities has offered scholarships to Sapienza students in order to operate in large exchange and multicultural programs, for a large number of faculties.

Organization


Faculties

The university is divided into 21 faculties:

  • 1st Faculty of Architecture
    Architecture

    The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
     Ludovico Quaroni
  • 2nd Faculty of Architecture
    Architecture

    The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
     Valle Giulia
    Valle Giulia

    Valle Giulia is a valley area of Rome, immortalised in Fontane di Roma.See also*Battle of Valle Giulia...
  • Faculty of Communication Sciences
    Communication Sciences

    Communication sciences refers to the schools of scientific research of human communication. This perspective follows the logical positivism tradition of inquiry; most modern communication science falls into a tradition of post-positivism....
  • Faculty of Economics
    Economics

    File:Ballard Farmers' Market - vegetables.jpgEconomics is the Social sciences that studies the Production theory basics, Distribution , and Consumption of Good and Service ....
  • Faculty of Engineering
    Engineering

    Engineering is the discipline and profession of applying Technology and science knowledge and utilizing natural laws and physical resources in order to design and implement materials, structures, machines, devices, systems, and process that safely realize a desired objective and meet specified criteria....
  • Faculty of Humanities
    Humanities

    The humanities are academic disciplines which study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytic, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural science and social sciences....
  • Faculty of Law
    LAW

    LAW may refer to:* Anti-tank warfare, e.g. the US Army M72 LAW or the British Army LAW 80*Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights ...
  • Faculty of Literature
    Literature

    Literature is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word means "acquaintance with letters" . In Western culture the most basic written literary types include fiction and non-fiction....
     and Philosophy
    Philosophy

    Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, justice, validity, mind, and language....
  • Faculty of Mathematical, Physical
    Physics

    Physics is the natural science which examines basic concepts such as energy, force, and spacetime and all that derives from these, such as mass, charge, matter and its Motion ....
     and Natural Studies
  • 1st Faculty of Medicine
    Medicine

    Medicine is the art and science of healing. It encompasses a range of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
     and Surgery
    Surgery

    Surgery is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, to help improve bodily function or appearance, or sometimes for some other reason....
  • 2nd Faculty of Medicine
    Medicine

    Medicine is the art and science of healing. It encompasses a range of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
     and Surgery
    Surgery

    Surgery is a medical specialty that uses operative manual and instrumental techniques on a patient to investigate and/or treat a pathological condition such as disease or injury, to help improve bodily function or appearance, or sometimes for some other reason....
  • Faculty of Oriental Studies
    Oriental studies

    Oriental studies is the academic field of study that embraces Near Eastern and Far Eastern societies and cultures, languages, peoples, history and archaeology; in recent years the term Asian studies has mostly replaced the older term....
  • Faculty of Pharmacy
    Pharmacy

    Pharmacy is the health profession that links the health sciences with the chemistrys, and it is charged with ensuring the safe and effective use of medication....
  • Faculty of Philosophy
    Philosophy

    Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, justice, validity, mind, and language....
  • Faculty of Political Sciences
  • 1st Faculty of Psychology
    Psychology

    Psychology is an academic and applied science discipline involving the science study of human mental functions and behavior. Occasionally it also relies on symbolic hermeneutics and critical theory, although these traditions are less pronounced than in other social sciences such as sociology....
  • 2nd Faculty of Psychology
    Psychology

    Psychology is an academic and applied science discipline involving the science study of human mental functions and behavior. Occasionally it also relies on symbolic hermeneutics and critical theory, although these traditions are less pronounced than in other social sciences such as sociology....
  • Faculty of Sociology
    Sociology

    Sociology is a branch of the social sciences that uses systematic methods of Empiricism and critical theory to develop and refine a body of knowledge about human social structure and activity, sometimes with the goal of applying such knowledge to the pursuit of social welfare....
  • Faculty of Statistics
    Statistics

    Statistics is a Mathematics pertaining to the collection, analysis, interpretation or explanation, and presentation of data. It also provides tools for prediction and forecasting based on data....
  • School for Aerospace Engineering
    Aerospace engineering

    Aerospace engineering is the branch of engineering behind the design, construction and science of aircraft and spacecraft. Aerospace engineering has broken into two major and overlapping branches: Aeronautics engineering and Astronautics engineering....
  • School for Library
    Library

    A library is a collection of information, sources, resources, books, and services, and the structure in which it is housed: it is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual....
     and Archive Studies


Research centers & major research groups


There are 5 Atenei federati, 2 Scuole, and over 30 Centri di Ricerca e studio:

  • Ateneo Federato della Scienza e della Tecnologia (AST)
  • Ateneo Federato delle Scienze delle Politiche Pubbliche e Sanitarie (SPPS)
  • Ateneo Federato delle Scienze Umane, delle Arti e dell'Ambiente
  • Ateneo Federato delle Scienze Umanistiche, Giuridiche e Economiche
  • Ateneo Federato dello Spazio e della Società
  • Scuola di Ingegneria Aerospaziale, near San Pietro in Vincoli
    San Pietro in Vincoli

    San Pietro in Vincoli is a basilica in Rome, best known for being the home of Michelangelo's magnificent statue of Moses ....
  • Scuola Speciale per Archivisti Bibliotecari, in Viale Regina Elena
  • Center for Research in Neurobiology "Daniel Bovet
    Daniel Bovet

    Daniel Bovet was a Swiss-born Italy pharmacology who won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of drugs that block the actions of specific neurotransmitters....
    "
  • Centro de La Sapienza per la ricerca sulla formazione e sull'innovazione didattica (CARFID)
  • Centro di Ricerca de La Sapienza Scuola del mare
  • Centro di Ricerca per la tutela della persona del minore
  • Centro di Ricerca de La Sapienza di Economia Internazionale (CIDEI)
  • Centro di Ricerca de La Sapienza in Studi europei ed internazionali (EuroSapienza)
  • Centro di Ricerca de La Sapienza per le Malattie sociali (CIMS)
  • Centro di Ricerca de La Sapienza sul Diritto e l'economia dei mercati (CIDEM)
  • Centro di Ricerca de La Sapienza Archivio del Novecento
  • Centro di Ricerca de La Sapienza per lo Studio delle Funzioni Mentali (CSFM)
  • Centro di Ricerca in Metodologia delle Scienze (CERMS)
  • Centro di Ricerca in Psicologia Clinica
  • Centro di Ricerca Interdisciplinare Territorio Edilizia Restauro Ambiente (CITERA)
  • Centro di Ricerca Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea (MLAC)
  • Centro di Ricerca per il Trasporto e la Logistica (CTL)
  • Centro di Ricerca per la Sperimentazione Clinica (CRISC)
  • Centro di Ricerca per le Nanotecnologie
  • Centro di Ricerca 'Prevenzione, previsione e controllo dei rischi geologici' (CERI)
  • Centro di Ricerca Studi per lo Sviluppo (SPES)
  • Centro di Ricerca su Roma (CISR)
  • Centro Interdipartimentale di scienza e tecnica (CIST)
  • Centro Interdisciplinare di Ricerca sulle Disabilità (CIRID)
  • Centro Interdisciplinare per il Turismo, il Territorio e l'Ambiente (CITTA)
  • Centro Interuniversitario Internazionale di Studi sulle Culture Alimentari Mediterranee (CIISCAM)
  • Centro per le applicazioni della televisione e delle tecniche di istruzione a distanza (CATTID)
  • Centro Teatro Ateneo (CTA)
  • Interdepartmental Research Center for Models and Information Anaysis in Biomedical Systems (CISB)
Uni Roma Lasapienza Logo
* Centro Ricerche Aerospaziali, responsible for the Italian rocket program - Based on San Marco platform
San Marco platform

The San Marco Platform is a spaceport platform on an old oil platform near Kenya, developed in the 1960 through a partnership between the Centro Ricerche Aerospaziali at the University of Rome La Sapienza and NASA to serve as a launch pad for Italy spacecraft....
  • SPES Development Studies - Research centre on Development studies at La Sapienza


Famous scholars from La Sapienza


Sciences
  • Lucio Bini
    Lucio Bini

    Lucio Bini was an Italian psychiatrist and professor at the University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy. Together with Ugo Cerletti, a neurophysiologist, he researched and discovered the method of electroconvulsive therapy, a kind of shock therapy for mental diseases....
     and Ugo Cerletti
    Ugo Cerletti

    Ugo Cerletti was an Italy neurology who discovered the method of electroconvulsive therapy in psychiatry....
    , psychiatrists
  • Corrado Böhm
    Corrado Böhm

    Corrado B?hm , Professor Emeritus at the University of Rome La Sapienza, is a computer scientist known especially for his contributions to the theory of structured programming, constructive mathematics, combinatory logic, lambda-calculus, and the semantics and implementation of functional programming languages....
    , computer scientist
  • Daniel Bovet
    Daniel Bovet

    Daniel Bovet was a Swiss-born Italy pharmacology who won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of drugs that block the actions of specific neurotransmitters....
    , pharmacologist, Nobel prize winner (1957)
  • Benedetto Castelli
    Benedetto Castelli

    Benedetto Castelli, born Antonio Castelli was an Italy mathematician. He took the name "Benedetto" upon entering the Benedictine Order in 1595....
    , mathematician
  • Andrea Cesalpino
    Andrea Cesalpino

    Andrea Cesalpino was an Italy physician, philosopher and botanist.In his works he taxonomy plants according to their fruits and seeds, rather than alphabetically or by medicinal properties....
    , physician and botanist
  • Federigo Enriques
    Federigo Enriques

    Federigo Enriques was an Italy mathematician, now known principally as the first to give a classification of algebraic surfaces in birational geometry, and other contributions in algebraic geometry....
    , mathematician
  • Maria Montessori
    Maria Montessori

    Maria Montessori was an Italy physician, educator, philosopher, humanitarian and devout Catholicism; she is best known for her philosophy and the Montessori method of children from birth to adolescence....
    , physician and paedagogist
  • Paola S. Timiras
    Paola S. Timiras

    Paola S. Timiras, M.D., Ph.D., ...
    , biologist
  • Vito Volterra
    Vito Volterra

    Vito Volterra was an Italy mathematician and physicist, best known for his contributions to mathematical biology.Born in Ancona, then part of the Papal States, into a very poor Jewish family , Volterra showed early promise in mathematics before attending the University of Pisa, where he fell under the influence of Enrico Betti, and where...
    , mathematician


Physicists
  • Via Panisperna boys
    Via Panisperna boys

    The Via Panisperna boys were a group of young scientists led by Enrico Fermi. In Rome in 1934, they made the famous discovery of slow neutrons which made later possible the nuclear reactor, and than the construction of the first atomic bomb....
    :
    • Enrico Fermi
      Enrico Fermi

      Enrico Fermi was an Italian physicist most noted for his work on the development of the first nuclear reactor, and for his contributions to the development of Quantum mechanics, nuclear physics and particle physics, and statistical mechanics....
      , Nobel prize winner (1938)
    • Edoardo Amaldi
      Edoardo Amaldi

      Edoardo Amaldi was an Italy physicist.He was the co-founder of CERN, ESA, and the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics....
    • Oscar D'Agostino
      Oscar D'Agostino

      Oscar D'Agostino was an Italy chemist and one of the so-called Via Panisperna boys, the group of young scientists led by Enrico Fermi: all of them were physicist, except for D'Agostino, who was a chemist....
    • Ettore Majorana
      Ettore Majorana

      Ettore Majorana was an Italy theoretical physicist who began promising work on neutrino masses. He Missing person suddenly in mysterious circumstances....
    • Bruno Pontecorvo
      Bruno Pontecorvo

      Bruno Pontecorvo Russian: ????? ?????????? ?????????? was an Italy-born atomic physics, an early assistant of Enrico Fermi and then the author of numerous studies in high energy physics, especially on neutrinos....
    • Franco Rasetti
      Franco Rasetti

      Franco Dino Rasetti was an Italy scientist. Together with Enrico Fermi, discovered key processes leading to nuclear fission. Rasetti refused to work on the Manhattan Project, however, on moral grounds....
    • Emilio G. Segrè
      Emilio G. Segrè

      Emilio Gino Segr? was an Italy physicist and Nobel laureate in Nobel Prize in Physics, who with Owen Chamberlain, discovered antiprotons, a sub atomic particle antiparticle....
      , Nobel prize winner (1959)
  • Giovanni Battista Beccaria
    Giovanni Battista Beccaria

    Giovanni Battista Beccaria , Italy physicist, was born at Mondov?, and entered the religious order of the Pious Schools in 1732.He became professor of experimental physics, first at University of Palermo and then at University of Rome La Sapienza, and was appointed to a similar situation at university of Turin in 1748....
  • Marcello Conversi
  • Giovanni Ciccotti
    Giovanni Ciccotti

    Giovanni Ciccotti is an Italy physicist.Ciccotti holds the position of Professor of the Structure of Matter at the University of Rome La Sapienza....
  • Giovanni Jona-Lasinio
    Giovanni Jona-Lasinio

    File:Giovanni Jona-Lasinio-Nobel Lecture-1.jpgGiovanni Jona-Lasinio , sometimes called Gianni Jona, is an influential Italy Theoretical physics, best known for his works on quantum field theory and statistical mechanics....
  • Francesco Guerra
  • Luciano Maiani
    Luciano Maiani

    Luciano Maiani is a San Marino citizen physicist best known for his prediction of the charm quark with Glashow and Iliopoulos....
  • Giorgio Parisi
    Giorgio Parisi

    Giorgio Parisi is an influential Italy theoretical physicist. He is best known for his works concerning statistical mechanics, quantum field theory and various aspects of Physics, Mathematics and Science in general....
  • Nicola Cabibbo
    Nicola Cabibbo

    Nicola Cabibbo is an Italy physicist, best known for work on the weak nuclear interaction. He was also the president of the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare from 1983 to 1992, and since 1993 he has been the president of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences....
    , President of the Pontifical Academy Of Sciences


Humanities
  • Luigi Ferri
    Luigi Ferri

    Luigi Ferri , Italy philosopher, was born at Bologna.His education was obtained mainly at the ?cole Normale Sup?rieure in Paris, where his father, a painter and architect, was engaged in the construction of the Th??tre Italien....
    , philosopher
  • Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina
    Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina

    Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina was an Italy man of letters and jurist. He was born at Roggiano Gravina, a small town near Cosenza, in Calabria.He was descended from a distinguished family, and under the direction of his maternal uncle, Gregorio Caloprese, who possessed some reputation as a poet and philosopher, received a learned education, aft...
    , jurisconsult;
  • Umberto Cassuto
    Umberto Cassuto

    Umberto Cassuto, also known as Moshe David Cassuto, , was a rabbi and biblical scholar born in Florence, Italy. ...
    , Hebrew language and Bible scholar
  • Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni
    Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni

    Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni , was an Italy poet....
    , poet
  • Count Angelo de Gubernatis, orientalist
  • Predrag Matvejevic
    Predrag Matvejevic

    Predrag Matvejevic was born in Mostar in 1932 to a Croats mother and a Ukrainians father. He is now a naturalised Italy citizen.He is known for his writing as well as for his political activism....
    , writer and academic
  • Santo Mazzarino
    Santo Mazzarino

    Santo Mazzarino was an Italy historian, considered a leading 20th-century historian of ancient Rome. He was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei....
    , leading historian of ancient Rome and ancient Greece
  • Giuseppe Tucci
    Giuseppe Tucci

    Giuseppe Tucci , was an Italy scholar of oriental cultures, specialising in Tibet and history of Buddhism. He was fluent in several European languages, Sanskrit, Bengali language, Pali, Prakrit, Chinese language and Tibetan language and he taught at the University of Rome La Sapienza until his death....
    , orientalist
  • Mario Liverani
    Mario Liverani

    Mario Liverani was born in Rome in 1939. He is Professor of Ancient Near East History at the University of Rome La Sapienza. He is a member of many institutions, such as the American Oriental Society, Accademia delle Scienze de Torino, and doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Copenhagen and the Autonomous University of Madrid....
    , orientalist
  • Paolo Matthiae
    Paolo Matthiae

    Paolo Matthiae is Professor of Archaeology and 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—and has published many articles and books about Ebla and about the History of Art of Mesopotamia and Syria in general....
    , director of the archeological expedition of Ebla
    Ebla

    Ebla was an ancient city about southwest of Aleppo. It was an important city-state in two periods, first in the late 3rd millennium BC, then again between 1800 BC and 1650 BC....
  • Marcel Danesi
    Marcel Danesi

    Marcel Danesi is known for his work in language, communications, and semiotics; being Director of the Program in Semiotics and Communication Theory, and is also a Professor of Semiotics and Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Toronto, Canada....
    , language scientist
  • Giuliano Amato
    Giuliano Amato

    Giuliano Amato is an Italy politician. He was Prime Minister of Italy twice, first from 1992 to 1993 and then from 2000 to 2001. He was more recently Vice President of the Convention on the Future of Europe that drafted the new European Constitution and headed the Amato Group....
    , law professor and twice Prime Minister of Italy
    Prime minister of Italy

    In Italy, the Prime Minister of Italy is the country's head of government. According to the formal Italian order of precedence, the position of prime minister is ceremonially the fourth most important Italian state offices; however, in reality, the prime minister is the most powerful and thus truly most important person in the Italian govern...
  • Diego Laynez
    Diego Laynez

    Several spellings of his names are in use and some of them can be found in other Wikipedia articlesJames Laynez , was a Spanish Society of Jesus priest and theology, and the 2nd Superior General of the Society of Jesus....
    , second general of the Society of Jesus
    Society of Jesus

    The Society of Jesus is a Roman Catholic religious order of clerks regular whose members are called Jesuits, Soldiers of Jesus Christ, and Foot soldiers of the Pope, because the founder, Saint Ignatius of Loyola, was a knight before becoming a Holy Orders....
    ;
  • Giulio Mazzarino, politician and cardinal
  • Pierluigi Petrobelli, musicologist


La Sapienza Alumni

  • Severino Antinori
    Severino Antinori

    Severino Antinori is an Italy gynecologist and embryology. He has publicly taken controversial positions over in vitro fertilisation and human cloning....
    , embryologist
  • Sergio Balanzino
    Sergio Balanzino

    Sergio Silvio Balanzino was born on 20 June 1934 in Bologna, Italy. After graduating in Law from the University of Rome La Sapienza he joined the Italian foreign service in 1958....
    , ambassador
  • Pietro Belluschi
    Pietro Belluschi

    Pietro Belluschi was a Portland, Oregon architect. He was a leader of the Modern Architecture, and was responsible for the design of over one thousand buildings....
    , architect
  • Bernardo Bertolucci
    Bernardo Bertolucci

    Bernardo Bertolucci is an Academy Award-winning Italy film director and screenwriter....
    , director
  • Maurizio Cheli
    Maurizio Cheli

    Maurizio Cheli is an Italy air force officer, an ESA astronaut and a veteran of one NASA space shuttle mission.A native of Modena, Cheli attended the Italian Air Force Academy and trained as a test pilot....
    , astronaut
  • Domenico Comparetti
    Domenico Comparetti

    Domenico Comparetti , Italy scholar, was born at Rome....
    , classic literature scholar
  • Gabriele D'Annunzio
    Gabriele D'Annunzio

    Gabriele d'Annunzio was an Italy poet, journalist, novelist, dramatist, and daredevil who went on to have a controversial role in politics as an influence on the Italian Fascist movement and the alleged forerunner of Benito Mussolini....
    , poet
  • Carlo Fea
    Carlo Fea

    Carlo Fea was an Italy archaeologist.Fea studied law in Rome, receiving the degree of doctor of laws from the university of University of Rome La Sapienza, but archaeology gradually attracted his attention, and with the view of obtaining better opportunities for his research in 1798 he took orders....
    , archaeologist
  • Massimiliano Fuksas
    Massimiliano Fuksas

    Massimiliano Fuksas is an Italy architect, born in Rome in 1944. He received his degree in Architecture from the La Sapienza University in 1969 in Rome, where he opened his first office....
    , architect
  • Romaldo Giurgola
    Romaldo Giurgola

    Romaldo Giurgola is an Italy-United States-Australian academic architect, professor, and author. Giurgola was born in Rome in 1920. After service in the Italian armed forces during World War II, he was educated at the Sapienza University of Rome....
    , architect
  • Umberto Guidoni
    Umberto Guidoni

    Umberto Guidoni is an Italy politician and a former ESA astronaut. He is a veteran of two NASA space shuttle missions. He is a Member of the European Parliament....
    , astronaut
  • Antonio Monda
    Antonio Monda

    Antonio Monda is an Italy film director, journalist, and professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He is a well-connected figure in and promoter of the arts, particularly film and literature....
    , film director
  • Luca di Montezemolo
    Luca di Montezemolo

    Luca Cordero di Montezemolo is an Italy businessman and Chairman of Ferrari and Fiat. He was also president of Italian Confindustria from 2004 to 2008 and of Federazione Italiana Editori Giornali....
    , CEO
  • Scott O'Dell
    Scott O'Dell

    Scott O'Dell was an American children's author who wrote 26 novels for youngsters, along with three adult novels and four nonfiction books. He was most famously the author of the children's novel Island of the Blue Dolphins , which won the 1961 in literature Newbery Medal as well as a number of other awards....
    , novelist
  • Crescenzio Cardinal Sepe
    Crescenzio Cardinal Sepe

    Crescenzio Sepe is an Italy Cardinal and Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Naples. He is Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples since 20 May 2006....
    , cardinal
  • Abdirashid Ali Shermarke
    Abdirashid Ali Shermarke

    nationality=Somali people|image=Abdirashid Ali Shermarke.jpg|order=2nd President of Somalia|term_start=June 10, 1967|term_end=October 15, 1969|predecessor=Aden Abdullah Osman Daar...
    , president and prime minister of Somalia
    Somalia

    Somalia , officially the Republic of Somalia and formerly known as the Somali Democratic Republic, is a country located in the Horn of Africa....


Points of interest

  • Orto Botanico dell'Università di Roma "La Sapienza", a botanical garden
    Botanical garden

    Botanical gardens grow a wide variety of plants primarily to categorize and document for scientific purposes. Botanists and horticulturalists tend the flora and maintain the garden's library and herbarium of dried and documented plant material....
  • Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza
    Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza

    The Church of Saint Yves at the Sapienza is a Roman Catholic churches of Rome Rome. The church is considered a masterpiece of Roman Baroque church architecture, built in 1642-1660 by the architect Francesco Borromini....


See also

Category:University of Rome La Sapienza alumni
Category:University of Rome La Sapienza faculty
  • ESDP-Network
  • List of Italian universities
  • University of Rome Tor Vergata
    University of Rome Tor Vergata

    The University of Rome Tor Vergata is a university located in Rome, Italy, and founded in 1982....
  • University of Roma Tre


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