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13 unusual facts about university of Padua


A.S.D. Universitaria Albignasego

The club was founded in 1946 as CUS Calcio Padova, the University of Padua's football club.

Andreas von Auersperg

In 1573 and 1574, he also studied at the renowned universities of Padua and Bologna.

Benjamin Musaphia

Around this time, Musaphia graduated from the Padua medical school, which was regarded as the best of its kind at the time.

Cuthbert Tunstall

Cuthbert studied mathematics, theology, and law at Oxford, Cambridge, and Padua, where he graduated Doctor of Laws.

Gabriele Zerbi

Gabriele Zerbi (1445 – 1505) was a Veronese professor at the Universities of Bologna and Padua.

Girolamo Mercuriale

He returned home in the following years; in 1575, the Venetian Senate awarded him a six-year contract as a professor at the University of Padua.

Ivan Krušala

He later studied in Rome and the University of Padua, also writing poetry in the Serbo-Croatian language, (particularly on defense of Perast from the Turks in 1654).

Johann Vesling

Later in his career, he succeeded Alpino Alpini (died 1637) as director of the botanical garden at the University of Padua.

John Chambre

After graduating M.A., Chambre visited Italy, studied medicine there, and graduated at the University of Padua.

John Ruthven, 3rd Earl of Gowrie

Gowrie had thus been already deeply engaged in treasonable conspiracy when, in August 1594, he proceeded to Italy with his tutor, William Rhynd, to study at the University of Padua.

Moshe Chaim Luzzatto

He may have attended the University of Padua and certainly associated with a group of students there, known to dabble in mysticism and alchemy.

Philip Louis I, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg

In 1573, he travelled to Italy and visited in the numerous places in northern Italy before reaching his destination, the University of Padua.

Silenziosa Luna

Japanese jiuta-mai dancer Sayuri Uno, American academic Laura Hein (Northwestern University) and Italian philosopher Marco Forlivesi (University of Padua) also made a significant contribution to this process.


Antonio Vallisneri

He studied at Bologna, Venice, Padua and Parma and held the chairs of Practical Medicine first and Theoretical Medicine later at the University of Padua between 1700 and his death.

Damião de Góis

A humanist and an open mind, Góis followed courses at the Universities of Padua and Leuven, wrote on various topics, like the condition of the Sami people (Lapps), and translated some classic works – among them, Cicero’s Cato maior de senectute – into Portuguese.

Edoardo Amaldi

Amaldi was born in Carpaneto Piacentino, son of Ugo Amaldi, professor of mathematics at the University of Padua, and Luisa Basini.

Gian Vincenzo Pinelli

Pinelli's interest in the new science of optics was formative for Galileo Galilei, for whom Pinelli opened his library in the 1590s, where Galileo read the unpublished manuscripts, consisting of lecture notes and drafts of essays on optics, of Ettore Ausonio, a Venetian mathematician and physician, and of Giuseppe Moleto, professor of mathematics at Padua (Dupre).

Giuseppe Toaldo

In 1754 he was appointed pastor of Montegalda; and, eight years later, was called to the chair of astronomy in the University of Padua.

Guidobaldo del Monte

Guidobaldo became a staunch friend of Galileo and helped him again in 1592, when he had to apply to the chair of mathematics at the University of Padua, due to the hatred and machinations of Giovanni de' Medici, a son of Cosimo I de' Medici, against Galileo.

Ioannis Kottounios

In 1637 he succeeded his former teacher, the renowned Italian philosopher Cesare Cremonini, at the Chair of Philosophy at the University of Padua.

Jacques Pierre Abbatucci

He studied at the Jesuit collège in Brescia, before graduating with a doctorate in medicine from the university of Padua in 1746.

Terrell Stone

His solo recordings include a compact disc of the solo music of Johann Paul Schiffelholz (misattributed to Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello) for gallichon, a 3 CD box set containing partitas composed by Silvius Leopold Weiss for baroque lute from the Warsaw manuscript, and a CD containing music of 16th century Paduan lute composers recorded in the famous anatomical theater of the "Università degli Studi di Padova" (University of Padua).