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The University of Cagliari () is a public
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Cagliari Cagliari (, , ; ; ; Latin: ''Caralis'') is an Comune, Italian municipality and the capital and largest city of the island of Sardinia, an Regions of Italy#Autonomous regions with special statute, autonomous region of Italy. It has about 146,62 ...
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, Italy. It was founded in 1606 and is organized in 11 faculties.


History

The ''Studium Generalis Kalaritanum'' was founded in 1606 along the lines of the old Spanish Universities of
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, but it begins to operate only after the privilege of King
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in 1620 as ''Universidad y Estudio General de Caller en el Reyno de Cerdeña'' (University and General Study of Cagliari in the
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). It originally offered Law,
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Literature, the Liberal Arts, Medicine, Surgery, Philosophy and Science. When
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passed under the
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government in the 18th century, the statute of the university was significantly modified, with the expansion of the science faculties and institutes. Designed by the Piedmontese engineer Saverio Belgrano di Famolasco, the new university building was completed at the end of the 18th century. Today it hosts the Rectorate and the administrative offices. The 19th and 20th centuries saw more and more emphasis placed on research activities, with the achievement of important, internationally acclaimed results, especially in the fields of medicine, physics, chemistry, biology and archaeology. A new university campus on the outskirts of town was recently built in
Monserrato Monserrato (''Pauli'' or ''Paulli'' in Sardinian language) is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the Metropolitan City of Cagliari, southern Sardinia, Italy, located about northeast of Cagliari. Monserrato borders the following municipalities: Caglia ...
, on an area of 73 hectares. It hosts the science faculties, many departments with their respective faculties, and one of the university general hospitals, adequately integrated with other medical institutions.


Organization

These are the 11 faculties in which the university is divided into: * Faculty of Economic, Jurisprudential and Political Sciences * Faculty of Humanistic Studies * Faculty of Engineering and Architecture * Faculty of Medicine and Surgery * Faculty of
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* Faculty of Sciences The university has about 36,000 enrolled students, a teaching staff of over 1,200 and a technical-administrative staff of about 1,300 people.


Coat of arms

The coats of arms of this university are, in the middle, the image of the Very Saint Conception, and at the foot a tiara of
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with letter H that means the name of Saint Hylarius Pope, and below, two
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s, in the one on the right hand, a letter L which means the name of Saint Lucifer with Primatial Cross, and in the other hand, the letter E which means the name of Saint Eusebius with his
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al insignia, and then at the right side of the Virgin, the coats of arms of this Kingdom (of Sardinia), and at left side, the one of this city of
Cagliari Cagliari (, , ; ; ; Latin: ''Caralis'') is an Comune, Italian municipality and the capital and largest city of the island of Sardinia, an Regions of Italy#Autonomous regions with special statute, autonomous region of Italy. It has about 146,62 ...
''.


Notable faculty

Among its notable faculty were: * Corrado Gini, statistician, developer of the
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*
Nicola Abbagnano Nicola Abbagnano (; 15 July 1901 – 9 September 1990) was an Italian existential philosopher. Life Nicola Abbagnano was born in Salerno on 15 July 1901. He was the first-born son of a middle-class professional family. His father was a practic ...
, philosopher *
Giulio Angioni Giulio Angioni (28 October 1939 – 12 January 2017) was an Italian writer and anthropologist. Biography Angioni was a leading Italian anthropologist, professor at the University of Cagliari and fellow of St Antony's College of the University o ...
, writer and anthropologist *
Enrico Bombieri Enrico Bombieri (born 26 November 1940) is an Italian mathematician, known for his work in analytic number theory, Diophantine geometry, complex analysis, and group theory. Bombieri is currently professor emeritus in the School of Mathematics ...
, mathematician *
Giuseppe Brotzu Giuseppe Brotzu ( Cagliari, 24 January 1895 – Cagliari, 8 April 1976) was an Italian pharmacologist and politician. Biography Giuseppe Brotzu was born in Ghilarza, a town now part of the Province of Oristano, Sardinia. He graduated from ...
, pharmacologist *
Aldo Capitini Aldo Capitini (23 December 1899 – 19 October 1968) was an Italian philosopher, poet, political activist, anti-fascist, and educator. He was one of the first Italians to take up and develop Mahatma Gandhi's theories of nonviolence and was know ...
, philosopher and politician * Ernesto de Martino, anthropologist *
Oliviero Diliberto Oliviero Diliberto (born 13 October 1956 in Cagliari) is an Italian politician. He has been leader of the Party of Italian Communists. Early life Oliviero Diliberto was born in a family of public servants (his father Marco was employed as at ...
, politician and jurist * Ludovico Geymonat, philosopher *
Pietro Ichino Pietro Ichino (born 22 March 1949) is an Italian politician and professor of labor law at the University of Milan ( Università degli Studi di Milano). From 1979 to 1983, he was an independent left-wing MP belonging to the ranks of the Italian Co ...
, politician and jurist * , philosopher and historian * Beppo Levi, mathematician *
Doro Levi Teodoro "Doro" Levi (1 June 1899 – 3 July 1991) was an Italian archaeologist who practiced in the Mediterranean countries in the 20th century. Specifically, Levi conducted excavations in Italy, Greece, and Turkey. From 1938 to 1945, Levi was ...
, archaeologist *
Giovanni Lilliu Giovanni Lilliu (13 March 1914 in Barumini, Italy – 19 February 2012 in Cagliari), was an archeologist, academician, publicist, politician and an expert of the Nuragic civilization. Largely due to his scientific and archeologic work in the Su ...
, archaeologist * Eva Mameli, botanist *
Antonio Pacinotti Antonio Pacinotti (17 June 1841 – 24 March 1912) was an Italian physicist, who was Professor of Physics at the University of Pisa. Biography Pacinotti was born in Pisa, where he also died. He was the son of Luigi Pacinotti and Caterina ...
, physicist * Paolo Rossi Monti, philosopher *
Guido Tabellini Guido Enrico Tabellini (born January 26, 1956) is an Italian economist, rector of Bocconi University from November 2008 until July 2012. Tabellini received his Laurea in 1980 from the University of Turin, and his Ph.D. in 1984 from UCLA. He firs ...
, economist


Points of interest

* Orto Botanico dell'Università di Cagliari, the university's
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See also

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Cagliari Cagliari (, , ; ; ; Latin: ''Caralis'') is an Comune, Italian municipality and the capital and largest city of the island of Sardinia, an Regions of Italy#Autonomous regions with special statute, autonomous region of Italy. It has about 146,62 ...


References


External links


Official Website
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University of Cagliari The University of Cagliari () is a public research university in Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy. It was founded in 1606 and is organized in 11 faculties. History The ''Studium Generalis Kalaritanum'' was founded in 1606 along the lines of the old ...
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