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37-578: A good-natured peddler of old books shows his customers some works from the past and is pranked by the rowdy son of a newsagent. Filmed reconstruction of the Excelsior Ball, an allegorical late-century dance by the composer Romualdo Marenco performed for the first time at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan on 11 January 1881. Two lovers, for contingent reasons, manage to see each other in a hotel room once

74-446: A Studium for ecclesiastical studies more under his control than the universities of Bologna and Padua , making it the first pontifical university. In 1431 Pope Eugene IV 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 schools of Law, Medicine, Philosophy and Theology. He introduced

111-583: A botanical garden, and three university hospitals. Sapienzas alumni includes 10 Nobel laureates , Italian prime ministers , one pope , Presidents of the European Parliament and European Commissioners , as well as several notable religious figures, supreme court judges, and astronauts. The Sapienza University of Rome was founded in 1303 with the Papal bull In Supremae praeminentia Dignitatis , issued on 20 April 1303 by Pope Boniface VIII , as

148-442: A commoner (played by Gina Lollobrigida), coined the term "increased physics" which will in fact mark an era and will be widely used throughout the 1950s and most of the 1960s. The exact reference, in the sentence pronounced in the film by De Sica during the speech, is: "increased physics" as opposed to the phrase "psychic handicapped". Vittorio De Sica in this episode is at his first appearance alongside Gina Lollobrigida; both actors,

185-515: A fundamental scene for aficionados. Later scenes of trials will make the fortune of Nando Mericoni "American in Rome" (Alberto Sordi) in the duology of Stefano Vanzina Un giorno in magistrale (1953) and Un americano a Roma (1954), up to Christian De Sica who in 1984 will pay an explicit homage to this scene played by his father, as Praetor of the film Mi fa causa (1984). Edoardo Scarfoglio Edoardo Scarfoglio (26 September 1860 – 6 October 1917)

222-489: A happy courtship and marriage, enlivened by the birth of a child and concluded with the departure of her husband for the war, from which she may not return. The songs to which the title refers are Lo specio me ga finger, Oh Trieste, oh blessed Trieste, Forbidden Music, Un peu d'amour, Le valse bleu, Baciami baciami, Santa Lucia and Tripoli bel suol d'amore. Naples. A commoner is tried for trying to poison her husband and mother-in-law together. Thanks to her irrepressible beauty,

259-524: A kiss given to the sweet Greek girl Filli, wonders if the kiss could have generated a child and also fears for his maid, who had a baby without being married. With the end of the summer comes the painful separation. A trader discovers his wife's cheating with his business partner. Upon returning home, at first he pretends nothing has happened, then with an excuse he sends the maid away and after denying his wife her forgiveness, threatening to take her children away from her, induces her to take her life. Story of

296-477: A new tax on wine to raise funds for the university; the money was used to buy a palace which later housed the Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza church. However, the university's days of splendour came to an end during the sack of Rome in 1527, when the studium was closed, some of the professors were killed and others dispersed. Pope Paul III restored the university shortly after his election to the pontificate in 1534. In

333-420: A writer of fiction, his early reputation rests on the novella The Trial of Phryne , published in 1884, a retelling—set in contemporary small-town Italy—of the trial of Phryne , a Greek courtesan from the fourth century, BCE. In Scarfoglio's version, a young woman, Mariantonia, guilty of murder, is acquitted simply because she is beautiful. Scarfoglio's tale is well known even to Italians who have not actually read

370-569: A year, for a few hours, but due to some quarrels and jealousies they are unable to consume their relationship. During the first war of independence fought against the Austrians, a very young drummer, delivering an important message to the Italian command, is hit and loses a leg (episode from the book "Cuore"). Two peasants scramble for possession of manure dung. Tender summer idyll between two children from upper-class families. Guido, because of

407-545: Is located mainly in the Città Universitaria (University city), which covers 44 ha (110 acres) near the monumental cemetery Campo Verano , with different campuses, libraries and laboratories in various locations in Rome. Sapienza was founded on 20 April 1303 by decree from Pope Boniface VIII as a Studium for ecclesiastical studies under more control than the free-standing universities of Bologna and Padua . In 1431 Pope Eugene IV completely reorganized

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444-470: Is ranked the 1st in the world by QS World University Rankings by subject. As the same ranking, the subject Archaeology ranks the 10th. The subject Physics & Astronomy of Sapienza is ranked 36th, Arts and Humanities is ranked 39th, and Psychology is ranked 70th. To cope with the large demand for admission to the university courses, some faculties hold a series of entrance examinations. The entrance test often decides which candidates will have access to

481-480: Is the main library housing 1.5 million volumes; it has some important collections including collezione ciceroniana and Fondo Festa . Since the 2011 reform, Sapienza University of Rome has eleven faculties and 65 departments. Today Sapienza, with 140,000 students and 8,000 among academic and technical and administrative staff, is the largest university in Italy. The university has significant research programmes in

518-855: The Roma Tiburtina Station . The university has satellite campuses outside Rome, the main one of which is in Latina . In 2011 a project was launched to build a campus with residence halls near Pietralata station , in collaboration with the Lazio region. To cope with the ever-increasing number of applicants, the Rector also approved a new plan to expand the Città Universitaria , reallocate offices and enlarge faculties, as well as create new campuses for hosting local and foreign students. The Alessandrina University Library ( Biblioteca Universitaria Alessandrina ), built in 1667 by Pope Alexander VII ,

555-711: The Università degli Studi di Roma " La Sapienza ", abbreviated simply as Sapienza ("wisdom"), is a public research university located in Rome , Italy. It was founded in 1303 and is as such one of the world's oldest universities, and with 122,000 students, it is the largest university in Europe . Due to its size, funding, and numerous laboratories and libraries, Sapienza is a global major education and research centre, first ranked in Southern Europe . The university

592-470: The novella , since it was the basis for an episode in Alessandro Blasetti 's popular 1952 film Altri tempi ( In Olden Days ), starring Gina Lollobrigida as Phryne/Mariantonia in the eighth, and last, episode bearing the title Il processo di Frine (Phryne’s Trial). On February 28, 1885 he married Matilde Serao, the best-known woman writer in Italy at the time, to avoid a scandal about

629-653: The 1650s the university became known as Sapienza, meaning wisdom, a title it retains. In 1703, with his private funds, Pope Clement XI purchased some land on the Janiculum , where he created a botanical garden, which soon became the most celebrated in Europe through the labours of the Trionfetti brothers. The first complete history of the Sapienza University was written in 1803–1806 by Filippo Maria Renazzi . University students were newly animated during

666-531: The 19th-century Italian revival. 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 , was completed. On 15 January 2008 the Vatican cancelled a planned visit to La Sapienza University by Pope Benedict XVI who was to speak at the university ceremony launching the 2008 academic year due to protests by some students and professors. The title of

703-655: The 90th in the world and the top in Italy in its World University Rankings . According to the QS Graduate Employability Ranking 2020, Sapienza places first amongst Italian universities for the indicator on Alumni Outcomes thanks to the number of university graduates employed in large companies and in managerial positions. In 2024, Sapienza University of Rome ranked 134th in the world in QS World University Rankings . The subject Classics and Ancient history of Sapienza

740-1018: The corruption and revealed that Scarfoglio had received 10,000 lire from a Belgian tramway company that operated several tram lines in the city. In 1904 he was called by the Florio family to direct L'Ora in Palermo . He made it an international newspaper, in line with the Florio family's interests, and agreements were made to exchange information with Le Matin in Paris, the Times in London and The Sun in New York. Scarfoglio remained in Sicily until 1907, and subsequently returned to Naples and Il Mattino . He and his wife were responsible for moving Naples into

777-399: The defense attorney appointed ex officio succeeds with an inspired and vehement harangue to overturn the situation, dragging the public and jurors to the side of the accused. Obtained from a short story by Edoardo Scarfoglio , and referring to an ancient story of the ethereal Phryne, he remained famous above all because Vittorio De Sica, in the role of the defender of the prosperous graces of

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814-424: The editorial staff of Capitan Fracassa , a Roman daily founded in 1880 by Luigi Arnaldo Vassallo . Frequenting these circles was the turning point for Scarfoglio's career, both personal and professional. The editorial offices were considered privileged literary salons around which orbited the most illustrious names of the new national culture: here he met Matilde Serao , who shortly afterwards became his wife. As

851-534: The fields of engineering, natural sciences , biomedical sciences and humanities . It offers 10 Masters Programmes taught entirely in English. As of the 2016 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), Sapienza is positioned within the 151–200 group of universities and among the top 3% of universities in the world. In 2016, the Center for World University Rankings ranked the Sapienza University of Rome as

888-441: The following year, will seize great popularity as the marshal and the bersagliera in the film Bread, love and fantasy directed by Luigi Comencini. It should only be noted that the scene of the "trial in court" for Italian cinema is an unmissable event, starting with the forerunners. Defendant, get up! by Mario Mattoli (1939) with Erminio Macario up to San Giovanni taken off by Amleto Palermi (1940) with Totò, and in this film he finds

925-694: The mainstream of Italian journalism in the early twentieth century by serializing the works of writers such as D'Annunzio . As an editorialist in his own paper, Scarfoglio supported such policies as Italian expansionism in Africa and the Aegean in the 1890s. He is the father of journalists Carlo Scarfoglio and Antonio Scarfoglio . He died in Naples, following a heart attack, on 6 October 1917. Sapienza University of Rome The Sapienza University of Rome ( Italian : Sapienza – Università di Roma ), formally

962-606: The most important and most widely read daily paper of southern Italy. Under Scarfoglio, Il Mattino did not shy away from taking sides in Neapolitan politics. During the Saredo Inquiry , that investigated corruption and bad governance in the city of Naples in 1900-1901, and uncovered an extensive political patronage system, the so-called "administrative Camorra" or "high Camorra"; the corrupt class of Neapolitan executive in charge of city governments. The newspaper acted as

999-585: The mouthpiece of the Mayor of Naples Celestino Summonte, and Alberto Casale, a Liberal member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and the local government power broker with extensive contacts in the Neapolitan underworld of the Camorra , and blasted the inquiry. Scarfoglio had close friends among politicians from the "high Camorra", which paid for his yacht with a permanent crew of eleven. According to

1036-579: The newly unified state. In 1935 the new university campus, planned by Marcello Piacentini , was completed. Sapienza teaches and conducts research in all pure and applied sciences and humanities. It is often considered the best in the world for classics and ancient history . Sapienza houses 50 libraries with over 2.7 million books, most notably the Alessandrina University Library, built in 1667 by Pope Alexander VII , housing 1.5 million volumes. In addition it has 19 museums,

1073-536: The prestigious Ennio Quirino Visconti Liceo Ginnasio . He enrolled in the Faculty of Letters at the Sapienza University of Rome in 1880 and began to participate in the capital's cultural life. In 1881, he began collaborating with Cronaca Byzantina , on which authors of the calibre of Giosue Carducci , Giovanni Verga , Luigi Capuana and Gabriele D'Annunzio wrote, and, in the same year, he joined

1110-494: The socialist newspaper La Propaganda , Naples was ruled by the Casale-Summonte-Scarfoglio triad; the tip of a corrupt iceberg of officials, politicians and administrators. Scarfoglio launched frenzied attacks against the socialist newspaper and the chairman of the inquiry, Giuseppe Saredo, who was described as an evil eye , and the inquiry was compared to a pestilential disease. The Saredo inquiry confirmed

1147-458: The speech would have been 'The Truth Makes Us Good and Goodness is Truth'. Some students and professors protested in reaction to a 1990 speech that Pope Benedict XVI (then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger) gave in which he, in their opinion, endorsed the actions of the church against Galileo in 1633. Sapienza University has many campuses in Rome, but its main campus is the Città Universitaria (University city), which covers 44 ha (110 acres) near

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1184-464: The studium and decreed that the university should expand to include the four schools of Law, Medicine, Philosophy, in addition to the existing Theology. In the 1650s the university became known as Sapienza , meaning "wisdom", a title it still retains. After the capture of Rome by the forces of the Kingdom of Italy in 1870, La Sapienza rapidly expanded as the chosen main university of the capital of

1221-769: The undergraduate course. For some faculties, the entrance test is only a means through which the administration acknowledges the students' level of preparation. Students that do not pass the test can still enroll in their chosen degree courses but have to pass an additional exam during their first year. Sapienza University can boast several illustrious professors and alumni from the past and the present. From Nicolaus Copernicus to Maria Montessori , from Luigi Pirandello to Tullio De Mauro , from Sergio Mattarella to Mario Draghi . Numerous Nobel Prize winners have been professors or have graduated from Sapienza: Guglielmo Marconi , Enrico Fermi , Daniel Bovet , Emilio Segrè , Giulio Natta , Carlo Rubbia , Franco Modigliani . Among

1258-400: The writer's pregnancy (later not carried to term). From marriage four children were born. Scarfoglio, however, had extramarital adventures, including an affair that lasted for about a year with Gabrielle Bessard , a French singer, who, when he decided to break off the relationship in 1894, killed herself in front of his door, leaving him the child born of their relationship. The child, Pauline,

1295-414: Was an Italian author and journalist, one of the early practitioners in Italian fiction of realism , a style of writing that embraced direct, colloquial language and rejected the more ornate style of earlier Italian literature. His name is chiefly associated with the newspaper Il Mattino in Naples, which he owned and edited for many years, and still is the largest daily newspaper in the city. Scarfoglio

1332-635: Was born in Paganica , in the Abruzzo region of Italy , but lived and worked in Naples much of his life. His father, Michele Scarfoglio, was a magistrate of Calabrian origin and his mother, Marianna Volpe, was of Abruzzese origin. He had a difficult school career due to his rebellious temperament and after repeating several classes at a high school in Chieti , he was sent to Rome to his uncle Carlo, to study at

1369-521: Was then raised in the family. The marriage and collaboration with Serao broke down in 1904. With Serao he first founded and ran a newspaper, Il Corriere di Roma , in Rome (1886-87), the first Italian attempt to model a daily journal along the lines of the Parisian press. The paper was short lived, and after its demise Scarfoglio and Serao moved to Naples where they edited Il Corriere di Napoli in 1888. In 1892, they co-founded Il Mattino , which became

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