University of Pavia

The University of Pavia is a public university in Pavia, Lombardy, northern Italy, known in Latin as Alma Ticinensis Universitas. Records of teaching in the city reach back to 1361, which places it among the oldest universities in the world, and until the end of the nineteenth century it was the only university in the greater Lombardy region. It has no single main campus: its departments, libraries and facilities are spread across the town, which the university itself describes as a city campus. It runs eighteen departments and nine faculties, offers undergraduate, master and doctoral programmes, including some taught in English, and operates museums, a botanical garden and a university press. In this atlas it matters as a historic centre of legal learning, where the sixteenth century jurist Giulio Claro studied law before his career in the Duchy of Milan.