The Casina Pio IV ( or Villa Pia ) Academy of Social Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of St Thomas Aquinas was begun in the Spring of 1558 by Pope Paul IV in the Vatican Gardens .
The Casina Pio IV ( or Villa Pia ) is a patrician villa in Rome which is now home to Academy of Social Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of St Thomas Aquinas . 
 It was begun in the Spring of 1558 by Pope Paul IV in the Vatican Gardens .