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Public university in Catania, Italy

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University of Catania
Università degli Studi di Catania

Latin:SiciliaeStudium GeneraleorSiculorum Gymnasium^{[citation needed]}
Type	Public
Established	19 October 1434; 590 years ago (1434-10-19)
Rector	Prof. Francesco Priolo
Administrative staff	1,623
Students	66,235^{[citation needed]}
Location	Catania , Italy
Sports teams	CUS Catania
Affiliations	UNIMED
Website	www.unict.it/

Detail of the University of Catania, from the faculty of humanities in theMonastery of San Nicolò l'Arena

TheUniversity of Catania (Italian:Università degli Studi di Catania) is a university located inCatania,Sicily. Founded in 1434, it is the oldest university in Sicily, the 13th oldest in Italy, and the 29th oldest university in the world. With a population of over 60,000 students, it is the main university in Sicily.^{[citation needed]}

Departments

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Following the Italian higher education reform introduced by the law 240/10 and adopted by the University of Catania in its new statute, faculties have been deactivated and departments have been reorganized. The University of Catania now has 17 departments, the Faculty of Medicine, and two special didactic units established in the decentralized offices of Ragusa (Modern Languages) and Syracuse (Architecture).^[1] that, additionally to the traditional assignments of scientific research, are in charge of the organization and management of educational activities. A special didactic unit is also the school of excellence "Scuola Superiore di Catania", a higher education centre of the University of Catania conceived in 1998 to select the best young minds and offer them a course of studies including analysis, research and experimentation.

Department	Short name	Director	Field
Agriculture, Food and Environment	Di3A	Prof. Agatino Russo	Agriculture
Economics and Business	DEI	Prof Roberto Cellini	Economics
Law	LAW	Prof. Roberto Pennisi	Law
Civil Engineering and Architecture	DICAR	Prof. Enrico Foti	Engineering
Electric, Electronic and Computer Engineering	DIEEI	Prof. Giovanni Muscato	Engineering
Mathematics and Computer Science	DMI	Prof. Orazio Muscato	Mathematical andComputer Science
Physics and Astronomy "Ettore Majorana"	DFA	Prof. Maria Grazia Grimaldi	Physics
Chemical Sciences	DSC	Prof. Antonino Licciardello	Chemistry
Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences	DIPBIOGEO	Prof. Pietro Pavone	Natural Sciences
Humanities	DISUM	Prof.ssa Marina Paino	Foreign Languages,Letters andPhilosophy
Medical, Surgical Sciences and Advanced Technologies “GF Ingrassia”	DGFI	Prof. Stefano Puleo	School "Faculty of Medicine" -Medicine andSurgery
General Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialties	CHIRMED	Prof. Ernesto Rapisarda
Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences	BIOMETEC	Prof. Filippo Drago
Clinical and Experimental Medicine	MEDCLIN	Prof. Francesco Purrello
Political and Social Sciences	DSPS	Prof. Giuseppe Vecchio	Political Science
Drug Sciences	DSF	Prof. Rosario Pignatello	Pharmacy
Educational Sciences	DISFOR	Prof.ssa Rosa Loredana Cardullo	Education
Architecture	SDSARCHITETTURA	Prof. Bruno Salvatore Messina	Special Didactic Units
Foreign Languages and Literatures	SDSLINGUE	Prof. Santo Burgio
Scuola Superiore di Catania	SSC	Prof. Daniele Malfitana
School of Italian Language and Culture	ITALSTRA

History

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The Palazzo dell'Università, seat of the University.

The university was founded by KingAlfonso I of Sicily on 19 October 1434. A charter was granted after two royal councillors (Adamo Asmundo and Battista Platamone) convinced the king to accept the founding of aStudium Generale in Catania, with the papal recognition arriving ten years later fromPope Eugene IV (18 April 1444). Alfonso V with this gesture wanted to compensate the city (in which there had been recently established the royal court) for moving the Sicilian capital from Catania to Palermo. The activity of the Atheneum actually started a year later, in 1445, with six professors and ten students. The first four faculties were Medicine, Philosophy, Canon and Civil Law and Theology. Lessons were initially held in a building in Piazza del Duomo, next to theCathedral of Sant'Agata, and eventually moved to thePalazzo dell'Università in the late 1690s. This building remains the office of the rector of the university to this day. The first degree was awarded to Antonio Mantello, from Syracuse, in 1449. During the course of the 16th century, approximately 20-25 degrees were awarded each year. The university (which from the 16th century was referred to asSiculorum Gymnasium) was namedStudium Generale because it was the only entity that could release degrees equal to those released in the oldStudia ofSalamanca,Valladolid,Bologna and this contributed to spread envy in the other Sicilian cities that in culture and traditions didn't feel inferior to Catania. In 1934, the university celebrated its 500th anniversary with KingVittorio Emanuele III of Italy, and, in 1984 the 550th one.

In the early centuries of its existence, the university was administered by theSenate of Catania,^[2] overseen by theViceroy of Sicily, with thebishop of Catania beingex officio Great Chanchellor. With a reform operated by the Viceroy in 1679 the authority of the Bishop prevailed: he had the control over the lecturers, the freshmen and students' curriculum. This led to various conflicts between the civil and religious authorities. From 1818 to the office of Great Chancellor was assigned to the president of the Great Civil Court, instead of the bishop.

Notable alumni

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Humanities

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Giuseppe De Felice Giuffrida, Italian politician and journalist, was elected the first Socialist mayor of Catania in 1902.
Mario Rapisardi, Italian poet and translator, taught at the university in the 1870s. "Love truth more than glory, more than peace, more than life. Make it your sword and your shield."
Luigi Capuana, writer, journalist, literary critic and theorist. He taught literature in the early years of the 20th century.
Giovanni Verga, Italian realist writer, author of theCavalleria Rusticana andI Malavoglia.
Santo Mazzarino, leading 20th-century historian of ancient Rome and Greece.
Vitaliano Brancati, Italian novelist and screenwriter, winner of the 1950Bagutta Prize.
Elémire Zolla, Italian essayist, philosopher and historian of religion, taught linguistics in the late 1960s.
Vincenzo Ortoleva, Professor of Classical Philology

Sciences

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Mario Pieri, mathematician, taught descriptive, projective and higher geometry from 1900 to 1908 and supervised 6 doctoral students with dissertations in algebraic geometry. SeeThe Legacy of Mario Pieri in Geometry and Arithmetic, Birkhäuser (E.A. Marchisotto & J.T. Smith (2007).
Giuseppe Mercalli, inventor of the Mercalli Scale of earthquake intensity, was professor of geology in the late 1880s.
Annibale Ricco, named Chair of Astrophysics in 1890, was the first director of the Catania Observatory. He was also Chancellor of the university from 1898 to 1900. The crater Ricco on the Moon as well as the asteroid18462 Ricco are named for him.
Guido Fubini, author of Fubini's theorem, was a professor of mathematics in the early years of the 20th century. The asteroid,22495 Fubini, is named in his honor.
Remo Ruffini, former assistant professor atPrinceton University (1971–74), was professor of theoretical physics from 1976 to 1978. He was named Space Scientist of the Year in 1992.
Paolo Maffei, director of the Catania Observatory from 1975 to 1980, was one of the pioneers of infrared astronomy. He discovered 2 galaxies,Maffei 1 andMaffei 2 in 1967. A main belt asteroid,18426 Maffei, is also named for him.
Giuseppe Colombo, physicist and astronomer, NASA consultant and early proponent of tethered satellites. Asteroid10387 Bepicolombo is named in his honor, as is theColombo Gap, a 150 km gap in the C ring of the planet Saturn.
Napoleone Ferrara, molecular biologist, winner of the 2010Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, is a 1981 graduate of the Faculty of Medicine.

Institutes

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Orto Botanico dell'Università di Catania, the university'sbotanical garden, founded in 1858.
Catania Astrophysical Observatory, the university'sobservatory, founded in 1890.

References

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^"Scuole di specializzazione - University of Catania".www.unict.it. Retrieved17 April 2018.
^i.e. the city council.

External links

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(in English)Official website
(in Italian)University of Catania students' website

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