The University of Padua is an Italian university located in the city of Padua, region of Veneto, northern Italy. The University of Padua was founded in 1222 by a group of students and teachers from Bologna. Padua is the second-oldest university in Italy and the world's fifth-oldest surviving university. In 2010, the university had approximately 65,000 students.
Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro was an Italian mathematician. He is most famous as the discoverer of tensor calculus.
Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia or Elena Lucrezia Corner, also known in English as Helen Cornaro, was a Venetian philosopher of noble descent who in 1678 became one of the first women to receive an academic degree from a university, and the first to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree.
Giuliano Pisani is a writer, classical philologist, scholar of ancient Greek and Latin literature, and art historian who was born on April 13, 1950, in Verona, Italy. He graduated with a degree in ancient Greek history from Padua University with Professor Franco Sartori. He was a full professor of Greek and Latin literature at Liceo Tito Livio in Padua. Since 2011, he has been a member of the National Italian Committee of the Promoters of Classical Culture at MIUR. He was also the technical coordinator of the first Olympiad in Classical Languages and Civilizations, which was held in Venice.
Guido Zappa was an Italian mathematician and a noted group theorist: his other main research interests were geometry and also the history of mathematics. Zappa was particularly known for some examples of algebraic curves that strongly influenced the ideas of Francesco Severi.
Georgios Kalafatis was a Greek professor of theoretical and practical medicine who was largely active in Padua and Venice in the 17th-century Italian Renaissance.
Madeleine Patin, born Madeleine Hommetz, was a French moralist author.
Francesco Bonatelli (1830-1911) was a 19th-century Italian philosopher of the Roman Catholic spiritualist tradition.
Alessandro Minelli is an Italian biologist, formerly professor of zoology in the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences of the University of Padova mainly working on evo-devo subjects.
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Dionigi Galletto was an Italian mathematician and academician.
Anne de La Vigne (1634–1684) was a French poet and natural philosopher who was a follower of René Descartes.
Valeria Miani was an Italian playwright noted for her works Celinda, a Tragedy, and Amorosa Speranza. Miani married Domenico Negri in 1593, with whom she had five children, Isabetta, Isabella, Lucretia, Giulio, and Anzolo. Miani is known for being the first woman to publish a tragedy prior to the 18th century. In addition, she was the third woman in Italy to write in the newly popular genre, the pastoral. Miani's works explored themes such as cross-dressing, death and punishment, female virtue, and female resilience.
Gerolamo Frigimelica Roberti was an Italian architect, librettist, and poet.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Padua in the Veneto region of Italy.
The Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere is an Italian academy founded by Napoleon in 1797. At the time of the foundation the Istituto was an institution of the Cisalpine Republic and its name was Istituto Nazionale della Repubblica Cisalpina.
Giuseppe Suzzi was an Italian mathematician and abbot.
Roberto Cessi was an Italian historian and politician, specializing in Venetian history.
Claude Guillermet de Bérigard, also known by the Latin form of his name Claudius Berigardus, was a French philosopher, physician and mathematician who became professor of philosophy at Pisa and Padua. He was a vocal opponent of the theories of Galileo. His last name is sometimes spelled Beauregard.
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