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27 unusual facts about Sapienza University of Rome


Alfonso Guerra

In 1988 Guerra received an honorary degree from the Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal in Lima, Peru, and he was awarded the Medaglia D'oro in 1984 by the Sapienza University of Rome.

Ashfaq Ahmed

During his stay in Europe, he received diplomas in the Italian and French languages from the University of Rome and University of Grenoble, France.

Benedikt Stojković

Silvio Valenti Gonzaga, which give to him the class of eloquenza at Sapienza University of Rome.

Carleton Beals

They left Mexico in 1921 for Europe where Beals studied at the University of Madrid, and then the University of Rome.

Center for Studies and Research in Aeronautical Medicine

In 1946 a new Nucleus for Studies and Research in Aeronautical Medicine was set up again, to become a Center once more in 1951; the unit, guided by Col. Tommaso Lo Monaco MD, resumed past experiences and was located at the Sapienza University of Rome near the Forensic Institute.

Charles J. Joachain

Professor Joachain has been a visiting professor in several universities and laboratories in Europe and the United States, in particular at the University of California, Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching.

Clarence Raymond Adams

As a Sheldon Traveling Fellow of Harvard University, he studied at the Sapienza University of Rome under Tullio Levi-Civita and at the University of Göttingen under Richard Courant.

Dirk van den Berg

There he began to study history of music and drama at the Sapienza University of Rome.

Elena De Rossi Filibeck

Since 1980 she has been a researcher at the Department of Oriental Studies in the Faculty of Arts, Sapienza University of Rome, and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Oriental Studies of the same university.

Gennaro Auletta

Auletta graduated from the Sapienza University of Rome where he took his PhD and completed his post-doctoral research work.

Giuseppe Cossiga

He has been a teacher at the Sapienza University of Rome in the "Master for Air Transports" and Chairman of the Istituto Studi e Ricerche per la Difesa, or ISTRID (Institute for Defence Studies and Research).

Giuseppe Santoro

He got his degree in Law at the Sapienza University of Rome, receiving the highest mark and the highest distinction.

Joseph Khoury

He was ordained as a priest on December 19, 1964 after studying at the Jesuits of Saint Maron of Ghazier as well as the University of Rome and the Gregorian University.

Kenneth J. Gergen

At various intervals he served as visiting professor at the University of Heidelberg, the University of Marburg, the Sorbonne, the University of Rome, Kyoto University, and Adolfo Ibanez University.

Louis Maracci

Louis (or Ludovico) Maracci (1612-1700), best known by name Lewis Maracci, was an Italian Oriental scholar and professor of Arabic in the College of Wisdom at Rome.

Pope appointed him as the professor of Arabic in the College of Wisdom - Sapienza University of Rome (in Italian, sapienza means wisdom), for his proficiency in that language.

Mario Santoro-Woith

Woith-Santoro was born in Todi, Umbria and attended the University of Rome “La Sapienza” from 1988 to 1993 where he studied Visual Anthropology.

Massimo Negrotti

He is also a member of the scientific committees of “International Sociology” and “Sociology and Social Rresearch” at the Sapienza University of Rome; that of “Sociology of Communication” at the University of Urbino; and that of “Studies of Sociology” at the Catholic University of Milan (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore).

Maurizio Lenzerini

Maurizio Lenzerini is an Italian professor of computer science and engineering at the Sapienza University of Rome where he specializes in Ontology language, knowledge representation and reasoning as well as service modeling.

Moshe Prausnitz

Among his excavations: the cemetery of Tell Abu Hawam (1952); Remnants of a church and a Byzantine settlement in Shavei Tzion (1955); Cemeteries at Tel Achziv (1958–1998) with the Istituto di Vicine Oriente in Rome, an excavation which Eilat Mazar continues to carry out.

Pantaleo Carabellese

Graduated from the University of Naples with a "laurea" in history (1901) and again from the University of Rome in philosophy (1906), Carabellese taught philosophy in Palermo, Sicily (1922–1929) and in Rome (1929–1948), marrying in 1936.

Participatory design

The UN, Global studio involved students from Columbia University, University of Sydney and Sapienza University of Rome to provide design solutions for Vancouver's downtown eastside, which suffered from drug- and alcohol-related problems.

Piero Boitani

He is Professor of Comparative Literature at the "Sapienza" University of Rome and teaches at the Universities of Notre Dame and of Italian Switzerland.

Rodolfo Benini

Finally, he moved to the University of Rome, where he was the first professor of statistics (1908–1928) and then professor of political economy (1928–1935).

Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy

He had also lectured on the subject in March 1950 at both the University of Rome and the Instituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente.

Stefano Levialdi Ghiron

Stefano (or Esteban) Levialdi Ghiron is a full professor at the Sapienza University of Rome.

Tomassoni awards

The prizes are awarded since 2001 every one or two years by Sapienza University of Rome.


Castore Durante

He later taught at the "Archiginnasio della Sapienza" (now called the Sapienza University of Rome) and, on the recommendation of Cardinal Girolamo Rusticucci, was appointed chief physician at the court of Pope Sixtus V.

Claudio Lotito

Lotito earned his High School Diploma in Classics at Ugo Foscolo Classical Lyceum in Albano Laziale and a Bachelor of Arts in Pedagogy cum laude from University of Rome I "La Sapienza".

Eric Barendt

He has been a visiting professor at the universities of Rome, Siena, Melbourne, and Panthéon-Assas University.

Eugenio Gaddini

Eugenio Gaddini, born in Cerignola (Apulia, Italy), received a philosophic and literary education and earned his M.D. in 1942 from the University of Rome.

Marios Kyriazis

Marios Kyriazis received primary and secondary education in Larnaca (Cyprus), and after military service with the Cypriot National Guard, he studied Medicine at the University of Perugia and then the University of Rome (Italy).

Mohamed Aden Sheikh

Aden was the first Somali surgeon who received his medical training at the University of Rome and practiced at Mogadishu General Hospital.

Nicola Acocella

In 1963 he graduated in Economics from the “Sapienza University of Rome” with a thesis on ‘Time lags in economic policy’, under the supervision of Federico Caffè.

Pietro Ruffo

He graduated with a degree in architecture from the University of Rome in 2005 and moved to the Ex Pastificio Cerere in San Lorenzo, an historic artist’s residence.

Rafael Domingo Osle

He was a Humboldt research fellow at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany (1989 and 1995), a visiting fellow at the University of Rome-La Sapienza (1995), and a visiting scholar at the Columbia Law School in New York (2000 and 2009).

Swoon of the Virgin

The backlash produced a work of 1506 by the Dominican Thomas Cajetan, then a professor at the Sapienza University of Rome and later to be head of his order and, as a Cardinal, Martin Luther's opponent in dialogue.