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{{short description|Italian public university}}
{{Infobox university
|name         = University of Perugia
|native_name  = Università degli Studi di Perugia
|latin_name   = Studium Generale Civitatis Perusii<ref>{{Cite web |title=Search |url=https://archive.org/search?query=%22Studium+Generale+Civitatis+Perusii%22&sin=TXT |website=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref>
|image        = Logo unipg.svg
|image_size   = 150px
|motto        = 
|established  = {{start date and age|1308}}
|type         = [[Public university|Public]]
|endowment    = 
|administrative_staff        = 1,200
|rector       = Prof. Massimiliano Marianelli<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.perugiatoday.it/politica/universita-unigp-massimiliano-marianelli-nuovo-rettore.html |title=Rettore - Università degli Studi di Perugia |access-date=2020-02-20 |archive-date=2020-06-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200610145030/https://www.unipg.it/ateneo/organizzazione/organi-di-governo/rettore |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|students     = 26,732 (2017/18)<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=http://ustat.mur.gov.it/|title=Home|website=USTAT}}</ref>
|undergrad    = 12,868
|postgrad     = 8,670
|doctoral     = 470 (2015)<ref name="auto"/>
|faculty      = 1,088 (2017)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cercauniversita.cineca.it/php5/docenti/cerca.php|title=Ricerca avanzata per docenti - Cerca Università|website=cercauniversita.cineca.it}}</ref>
|city         = [[Perugia]]
|country      = Italy
|campus       = Both urban and rural
|free_label   = Sports teams
|free         = CUS Perugia [http://www.unipg.it/cusperugia/]
|affiliations = [[AlmaLaurea]], [[Compostela Group of Universities]]
|website      = [http://www.unipg.it/ www.unipg.it/]
|address      = Piazza dell'Università, 1 - 06121 Perugia
|colours      = Blue and Red
}}
The '''University of Perugia''' ([[Italian language|Italian]] ''Università degli Studi di Perugia'') is a public university in [[Perugia]], Italy. It was founded in 1308, as attested by the Bull issued by [[Pope Clement V]] certifying the birth of the [[Studium Generale]].

The official seal of the university depicts [[Herculanus of Perugia|Saint Herculan]], one of the patron saints, and the rampant crowned [[griffin]], which is the city symbol; they represent the ecclesiastical and civil powers, respectively, which gave rise to the university in the [[Middle Ages]].

==History==
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One of the "free" universities of Italy, it was elevated into a ''studium generale'' on September 8, 1308, by the Bull "Super specula" of [[Clement V]]. A school of arts existed by about 1200, in which medicine and law were soon taught, with a strong commitment expressed by official documents of the City Council of Perugia. Before 1300 there were several ''universitates scholiarum''. [[Jacobus de Belviso]], a famous civil jurist, taught here from 1316 to 1321. By Bull on August 1, 1318, [[John XXII]] granted the privilege of conferring degrees in civil and canon law, and on February 18, 1321, in medicine and arts.

On May 19, 1355, the Emperor [[Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles IV]] issued a Bull confirming the papal elevation and raising it to the rank of an imperial university. This unusual mark of favour was given to assist Perugia after the terrible plague years of 1348–49. In 1362 the ''Collegium Gregorianum'' (later called the ''Sapienza vecchia'') was founded by Cardinal [[Nicolò Capocci]] for the maintenance of forty youths. [[Gregory XI]], by Brief of October 11, 1371, gave the privileges of a studium generale to the new faculty of theology. This faculty was suppressed and its property merged into the university in 1811. The ''Collegio di S. Girolamo'' was founded by Benedetto Guidalotti, Bishop of [[Recanati]]as a free hostel for impecunious strangers who wished to study law and medicine in 1426, with [[Martin V]]'s approval, and transferred (as the ''Sapienza nuova'') to the University. Suppressed by the French in 1798, it was reopened in 1807 by [[Pius VII]] as the ''Collegio Pio''. In the Constitution of August 27, 1824, [[Leo XII]] made this the chief college of the university.

With the unification of Italy in 1860 the University of Perugia was established under the jurisdiction of the Rector and the Town Council, who issued statutes subject to approval by the Government. From 1944 to the present, the University of Perugia has achieved an outstanding reputation as one of the leading universities in Italy.

Since the time of [[Napoleon I]], the university has occupied the old [[Olivetan]] convent of Monte Morcino. There was a faculty of mathematics down to 1884. The statutes are modelled upon those of [[University of Bologna|Bologna]]. The number of students at different dates was 142 in 1339, 79 in 1881, 350 in 1911.

==Organization==
With its 16 faculties and a vast selection of first and second-level and single-cycle degree programs, the University of Perugia offers its main courses in Perugia and [[Terni]], and specialized programs throughout the [[Umbria]] region in the cities of [[Assisi]], [[Foligno]], and [[Narni]].

The faculties into which the university is divided are:

* Department of [[Agricultural, Food and Environmental Science]]
* Department of [[Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology]]
* Department of [[Civil and Environmental Engineering]]
* Department of [[Economics]]
* Department of [[Engineering]]
* Department of [[Humanities, Ancient and Modern Languages, Literature and Cultures]]
* Department of [[Law]]
* Department of [[Mathematics and Computer Science]]
* Department of [[Medicine and Surgery]]
* Department of [[Pharmaceutical Sciences]]
* Department of [[Philosophy, Social Sciences and Education]]
* Department of [[Physics and Geology]]
* Department of [[Political Science]]
* Department of [[Veterinary Medicine]]

Its research programs are conducted by 14 departments with a total of 1,200 full-time staff.

The University's activities also include 25 service organizations and research centers as well as 11 libraries with rich collections and equipment. It had a total enrolment of over 27,000 students for the 2021–2022 academic year.

==Academic authorities==
* Rector [[Prof. Maurizio Oliviero]] [https://www.unipg.it/en/university/rector Università degli Studi di Perugia]
* Prorector [[Prof. Fausto Elisei]] [https://www.unipg.it/en/university/vice-rector Università degli Studi di Perugia]
* Deputy Rectors [https://www.unipg.it/en/university/deputy-rectors Università degli Studi di Perugia]
** [[Prof. Luca Bartocci]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unipg.it/personale/luca.bartocci|title = Luca Bartocci - Università degli Studi di Perugia}}</ref>
** [[Prof. Paolo Belardi]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unipg.it/personale/paolo.belardi|title = Paolo Belardi - Università degli Studi di Perugia}}</ref>
** [[Prof. Stefano Brancorsini]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unipg.it/personale/stefano.brancorsini|title = Stefano Brancorsini - Università degli Studi di Perugia}}</ref>
** [[Prof. Gabriele Cruciani]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unipg.it/personale/gabriele.cruciani|title=Gabriele Cruciani - Università degli Studi di Perugia|website=www.unipg.it}}</ref>
** [[Prof. Fausto Elisei]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unipg.it/personale/fausto.elisei|title = Fausto Elisei - Università degli Studi di Perugia}}</ref>
** [[Prof.ssa Carla Emiliani]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unipg.it/personale/carla.emiliani|title=Carla Emiliani - Università degli Studi di Perugia|website=www.unipg.it}}</ref>
** [[Prof. Daniele Parbuono]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unipg.it/personale/daniele.parbuono|title = Daniele Parbuono - Università degli Studi di Perugia}}</ref>
** [[Prof. Daniele Porena]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unipg.it/personale/daniele.porena|title=Daniele Porena - Università degli Studi di Perugia|website=www.unipg.it}}</ref>
** [[Prof. Roberto Rettori]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unipg.it/personale/roberto.rettori|title = Roberto Rettori - Università degli Studi di Perugia}}</ref>
** [[Prof.ssa Stefania Stefanelli]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unipg.it/personale/stefania.stefanelli|title = Stefania Stefanelli - Università degli Studi di Perugia}}</ref>
** [[Prof. Mario Tosti]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unipg.it/personale/mario.tosti|title=Mario Tosti - Università degli Studi di Perugia}}</ref>
** [[Prof. Helios Vocca]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.unipg.it/personale/helios.vocca|title = Helios Vocca - Università degli Studi di Perugia}}</ref>

==Eminent faculty and alumni==
Among its eminent teachers were:

* [[Luca Pacioli]] (c. 1447–1517), father of accounting
* [[Jacobus de Belviso]] (c. 1270–1335), jurist
* [[Johannes Andreas]], canonist
* [[Cino da Pistoia]], (1270–1336), poet and jurist
* [[Bartolus de Saxoferrato]], (1314–1357), famous civil jurist
* [[Baldus de Ubaldis]] (1327–1400), jurist, (its figure is represented on all diploma certificates)
* [[Gentile da Foligno]] (d. 1348), physician
* [[Albericus Gentilis]], founder of the science of international law
* [[Francesco della Rovere]] Pope ([[Sixtus IV]])
* [[Annibale Mariotti]], physician
* [[Annibale Vecchi]], pharmacist
* [[Domenico Bruschi]], botanist
* {{Interlanguage link|Bernardo Dessau|it}}, physicist
* [[Giuseppe Antinori]], arcadian and classicist
* [[Francesco Coppola (journalist)|Francesco Coppola]], politician
Among its students have been:
* [[Pope Nicholas IV|Nicholas IV]]
* [[Gregory XI]] (c. 1329–1378, r. 1370–1378)
* [[Innocent VII]]
* [[Martin V]]
* [[Pius III]]
* [[Julius II]]
* [[Julius III]]
* [[Urban VII]]
* [[Gregory XIV]]
* [[Clement VIII]]
* [[Paul V]]
* [[Ruggero Oddi]], physician
* [[Michaëlle Jean]], former [[Governor General of Canada]] and current [[Organisation internationale de la Francophonie|Secretary-General of La Francophonie]]
* [[Monica Bellucci]], actress
* [[Suze Rotolo]]
* [[Pier Paolo Pandolfi]]
* The former UK Conservative Party leader [[Iain Duncan Smith]] infamously claimed in his CV to be a graduate of the university but, in fact, spent a short period studying at the [[University for Foreigners Perugia|University for Foreigners]] in [[Perugia]], where he did not complete his studies and did not gain any qualifications.<ref name="newsnight2002">{{cite news|date=19 December 2002|title=Newsnight reveals inaccuracies in Iain Duncan Smith's CV|work=BBC Press Office Release|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2002/12_december/19/newsnight_ids_cv.shtml|url-status=live|access-date=8 December 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707092356/http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2002/12_december/19/newsnight_ids_cv.shtml|archive-date=7 July 2011}}</ref>

==Points of interest==
* [[Orto Botanico dell'Università di Perugia]], the university's [[botanical garden]]

==In Popular Culture==
The 1973 film [[Torso (1973 film)|Torso]], a ''[[giallo]]'' directed by [[Sergio Martino]], retrospectively recognized as one of the first "proto-[[slasher film]]s", is set at the University of Perugia and surrounding locales.

==See also==
* [[List of Italian universities]]
* [[List of medieval universities]]
* [[Perugia]]

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Official website|http://www.unipg.it/}} {{in lang|it|en}} 
*{{CathEncy|wstitle=University of Perugia}}
*Database of scholars of University of Perugia (1308-1800), ''[https://ojs.uclouvain.be/index.php/RETE/index Repertorium Eruditorum Totius Europae/RETE].''

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