Padua and the Tudors English Students in Italy, 1485-1603 |
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| Author:
| Woolfson, Jonathan |
| ISBN: | 978-0-227-67942-5 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 1999 |
| Publisher: | James Clarke Company, Limited
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $83.00USD $83.00 |
Book Description:
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The University of Padua was one of Europe's great centres of learning in the pre-modern period. Founded in 1222, it became known over the following century as a universitas scholarium, that is, a self-governing, legal corporation of scholars, and attracted many important intellectual figures including a numer of humanists, the pioneers of the Renaissance revival.
The University of Padua was one of Europe's great centres of learning in the pre-modern period. Founded in 1222, it became known over the following century as a universitas scholarium, that is, a self-governing, legal corporation of scholars, and attracted many important intellectual figures including a numer of humanists, the pioneers of the Renaissance revival.