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taught medicine there* In 1321 the university of Siena
was enlarged, receiving accessions from Bologna. DINO
DI GARBO, who at that time represented medicine at Siena,
drew a yearly stipend of 1,155 lire. At a later period the
university decayed, and its decline was not materially
retarded in consequence of its official recognition by the
Emperor CHARLES IV- in 1357 as a studium generate. It
was not till the end of the 15th century that it recovered
itself.
Piacenza possessed a school of law at the end of the
12th century, which was raised into a university in 1248.
The Magister HUGO, a clergyman, taught medicine there
at that time. The academy obtained first under GALEZZA
VlSCO'NTl a certain reputation ; in 1399 it possessed 71
teachers, 22 of them being medical. It was abolished in
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At the seat of the papal Court there arose in 1244 an
institution for teaching, endowed with the privileges of a
university, in which theology, law, oriental tongues, and
afterwards medicine were taught. Situated first at
Avignon and then at Rome, it was united with the academy
which had existed in the latter place since 1303. Here, in
1514, 88 Professors were engaged in teaching, namely,
4 teachers of theology, 11 of canonical, 20 of civil, law, 15
of medicine, and 38 of philosophy, mathematics, rhetoric
and German; on the other hand/the number of students
was relatively small. Under Pope ALEXANDER VI. the
building of the Sapienza was begun, the halls of which
serve for the seat of the university of Rome at the present
day.
In Perugia a school of law existed in the 13th century;
but other sciences also and especially medicine were
taught there. In 1308 the Pope proclaimed the school a
university. Here at first one but, after 1314, two teachers
of medicine were appointed, only however for a period of
three years. In the roll of 1339, alongside of four doctors
* DENIFLE op. cit. i, S. 437.
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