University of Palermo

University of Palermo
The University of Palermo is a university located in Palermo, Italy, and founded in 1806. It is organized in 12 Faculties.
History
The University of Palermo was officially founded in 1806, although its earliest roots date back to 1498 when medicine and law were taught there. A little later in history, from the second half of the 16th century from their seat at the Collegio Massimo al Cassero, the Jesuit Fathers granted degrees in Theology and Philosophy - subjects in which they had been masters for over 200 years.
In 1767 they were expelled from the kingdom by King Ferdinand I, until 37 years later, when they returned to take their seat - which in the meantime had been turned into the Regia Accademia.
At this time, the same King Ferdinand decided to grant a good seat to the Accademia, moving its location to the Convent of the Teatini Fathers next to the Church of St. Giuseppe.
After the unification of Italy in 1860, the University of Palermo was modernized under the impetus of the chemist Stanislao Cannizzaro and the minister and specialist in Arab studies Michele Amari, more or less assuming its present appearance. Since 1984 the main building of the University, housing the Rector's office, is Palazzo Chiaramonte-Steri, one of the most important historical buildings in Palermo, built in 1307 and formerly the residence of the Chiaramonte. Not far from Palazzo Steri, on land formerly belonging to the Chiaramonte, the Botanical Gardens of Palermo constitute a further admirable pearl of the University.
Today, the University has grown to be an institution of about 2000 lecturers and 50,000 students in which research in all main fields of study is carried out. In the past few years the university has actively taken part in international cooperation programmes.
Organization
These are the 12 faculties in which the university is divided into:
Faculty of Agriculture
Faculty of Architecture
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Faculty of Economics
Faculty of Education
Faculty of Engineering
Faculty of Law
Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Physics
Faculty of Pharmacy
Faculty of Political Sciences
Notable people
Alumni
Giuseppe Alessi
Giuseppe Ayala
Ernesto Basile
Giovanni Battista Filippo Basile
Giulia Bongiorno
Paolo Borsellino
Gesualdo Bufalino
Diego Cammarata
Bruno Caruso
Rocco Chinnici
Francesco Crispi
Salvatore Cuffaro
Giovanni Falcone
Mario Fasino
Paolo Giaccone
Giovanni Gioia
Pietro Grasso
Enrico La Loggia
Giuseppe La Loggia
Pio La Torre
Salvatore Lauricella
Rosario Livatino
Filippo Mancuso
Calogero Mannino
Bernardo Mattarella
Francesca Morvillo
Gaetano Mosca
Francesco Musotto
Leoluca Orlando
Vittorio Emanuele Orlando
Ettore Paratore
Emanuele Paternò
Mino Pecorelli
Valentino Picone
Elda Pucci
Franco Restivo
Antonino Saetta
Amedeo di Savoia
Pietro Scaglione
Renato Schifani
Enzo Sellerio
Antonio Starabba di Rudinì
Carlo Vizzini
Antonino Zichichi
Notable professors
Sergio Mattarella, President of Italy
Emilio Segrè, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959
Stanislao Cannizzaro, famous for the Cannizzaro reaction and for his influential role in the atomic-weight deliberations of the Karlsruhe Congress in 1860.
Giuseppe Piazzi, his most famous discovery was the first dwarf planet, Ceres.
Natalino Sapegno, He came to prominence as a leading scholar of fourteenth century Italian literature.
Gaetano Giorgio Gemmellaro
Antonino Salinas
Gioacchino Scaduto
Notes and references
See also
List of early modern universities in Europe
List of Italian universities
Palermo
Orto botanico di Palermo
Center for Sicilian Philological and Linguistic Studies
External links
University of Palermo Website
History of the University of Palermo
Life at the University of Palermo
Palermo
Schools in Palermo
Buildings and structures in Palermo
1806 establishments in the Kingdom of Sicily
1806 establishments in Italy