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The University of Vicenza (in Italian: Università di Vicenza) was a medieval university located in the town of Vicenza in the Veneto region of Italy. It was recognized as a studium generale in 1204. [1]

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The university was first formed by students migrating from the University of Bologna; Hastings Rashdall suggests a number of universities were formed the same way during the first decade of the 13th century. [2] The university closed in 1209. [3]

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References

  1. The Encyclopædia Britannica, 1893, Volume 23, page 836. ."Universities." Retrieved 27 Feb 2014
  2. The Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages: Volume 1, Salerno, Bologna, Paris by Hastings Rashdall (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
  3. Pederson, Olaf,"The First Universities: Studium Generale and the Origins of University Education in Europe,"Cambridge university Press, 1997, page 161. ISBN   0 521 59431 6