The University of Ferrara ( Italian : Università degli Studi di Ferrara ) is the main university of the city of Ferrara in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. In the years prior to the First World War the University of Ferrara, with more than 500 students, was the best attended of the free universities in Italy. Today there are approximately 16,000 students enrolled at the University of Ferrara with nearly 400 degrees granted each year. The teaching staff number 600, including 288 researchers. It is organized into 12 Departments.
15-677: The University of Ferrara was founded on March 4, 1391 by Marquis Alberto V D'Este with the permission of Pope Boniface IX . The Studium Generale was inaugurated on St. Luke 's Day (October 18) of that year with courses in law , arts and theology . After the unification of Italy , Ferrara University became a free university with faculties of Law and Mathematics , a three-year course in Medicine (reduced to two years in 1863-64), as well as Schools of Veterinary Medicine (abolished in 1876), Pharmacy, and for public Notaries. After World War II , it started to be state-supported and this allowed
30-489: A special Institute for Advanced Studies, IUSS-Ferrara 1391. Generally speaking, research departments do not coincide with faculties (as is usual in Italy). Specifically, literature, history, philosophy are independent of one another. Furthermore, biologists, physicists, and geologists work in different institutions. Medical research is carried out in cooperation with the city hospital, which offers some of its buildings for use as
45-462: A teaching hospital. [REDACTED] 44°50′00″N 11°37′35″E / 44.83335°N 11.62649°E / 44.83335; 11.62649 Alberto d%27Este Alberto (V) d'Este (27 February 1347 – 30 July 1393) was lord of Ferrara and Modena from 1388 until his death. He was associated in the lordship of the House of Este by his brother Niccolò in 1361, becoming
60-549: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This biographical article related to the Italian military is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Niccol%C3%B2 III d%27Este Niccolò III d'Este (9 November 1383 – 26 December 1441) was Marquess of Ferrara from 1393 until his death. He was also a condottiero . Born in Ferrara , the son of Alberto d'Este and Isotta Albaresani, he inherited
75-523: The Faculty of Medicine to open in 2006 a permanent office near the Capital University of Medical Sciences of Beijing. This has allowed the implementation of a master's degree of the second level in clinical Neurophysiology, with consent to the young Chinese neurologists, to expand the applied techniques and their studies of neuroscience. Institutions participating in the master’s program include
90-583: The Papal Army by Pope Boniface IX . In 1405 he ceded the ancestral family lands near Este to Venice. In 1410 the fighting master Fiore dei Liberi dedicated his treatise, the Fior di Battaglia , to him. In 1413 he made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land . In 1418 he remarried Parisina Malatesta , daughter of Andrea Malatesta . Two years later, fearing the ambitions of Filippo Maria Visconti , he ceded to him
105-532: The battle and Azzo himself was taken prisoner and subsequently imprisoned by Astorre I Manfredi , commander of the Regency Council forces, thus removing the threat to Niccolò's rule. In 1397 Niccolò married Gigliola da Carrara , daughter of Francesco II da Carrara , lord of Padua . In 1403 he joined the league formed against Gian Maria Visconti , Duke of Milan, being appointed Captain General of
120-606: The best Italian university for the applied exploitation of research. In order to produce these results, the CIVR has taken into consideration numerous data such as patents registered in Italy and abroad, the research collaborations between the university business and academic spin-offs. Starting in 2000, the University of Ferrara has collaborated across the faculties of economics, architecture, medicine, jurisprudence and engineering in
135-703: The department of neurophysiology of the University of Ferrara, the Neurological institute of Milan and to Beijing. Another active master’s program with its seat in Ferrara is that of the aesthetics and cosmetology signed to Canton through the Ferrara Center of Cosmetology and the Chinese academy Ginzza International Beauty and Hair Academy. These are the 8 faculties which the university is divided into: As of 2014, there are 12 PhD courses, organized around
150-475: The main industrial areas of China, that is, Guangdong, in research and experimentation with the Chinese universities and important local businesses. Collaborations have begun between the Faculty of Economics of Ferrara and the South China University of Technology, an agreement that has permitted the faculty in Ferrara to undertake a research project about the industry of Guangdong and has allowed
165-480: The opening of many faculties and research departments. The most remarkable growth took place between the '70s and the '80s, when Prof. Antonio Rossi was in charge of it as Rector . Some notable instructors include: The CIVR (Comitato di Indirizzo per la Valutazione della Ricerca, or Directory Committee for the Evaluation of Research), according to a public report of 2007, has rated the University of Ferrara as
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#1732776642693180-443: The possession of Parma . In 1425 Niccolò had both his wife Parisina and his illegitimate son Ugo executed on charges of adultery, as well as decreeing that all women within his domains found to be guilty of adultery were to be put to death. He had to rescind this order once it was determined that this action would depopulate Ferrara. In that year he was again commander-in-chief of the anti-Visconti league. In 1429 his illegitimate son
195-624: The rule of the city in 1393 when only 10 years old. As a minor he was guided by a Regency Council supported by the Republics of Venice , Florence and Bologna . In 1395 the troops of the Regency Council were attacked at the Battle of Portomaggiore by Niccolò's relative Azzo X d'Este , a descendant of Obizzo II d'Este , who contested Niccolò's right to rule in Ferrara due to his illegitimate birth, even though Niccolò had been legitimated by his father. However, Azzo's mercenary forces were defeated in
210-491: The sole ruler of Ferrara and Modena after the latter's death in 1388. He was the son of Obizzo III d'Este , who had ruled in Ferrara from 1317 to 1352. Alberto founded the University of Ferrara in 1391. In the same year he married Giovanna de' Roberti (d. 1393). After her death, he married his mistress Isotta Albaresani. He was succeeded by his legitimated son Niccolò (III). This biography of an Italian noble
225-769: Was named heir of the Marquisate. The role of Niccolò as a prestigious leader in Italy was confirmed when his city was chosen as the seat of a council in 1438. Niccolò had children with at least eleven different women. He married first Gigliola da Carrara , daughter of Francesco II da Carrara , lord of Padua in June 1397. She died of the plague in 1416. They had no known children. He married secondly Parisina Malatesta , daughter of Andrea Malatesta . He had her executed on 21 May 1425 for allegedly having an affair with his illegitimate son Ugo d'Este . They had three children: He married thirdly Ricciarda of Saluzzo in 1429. She
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