University of Rome La Sapienza

University of Rome La Sapienza (Università della Sapienza) is the most ancient university of Rome, Italy. It is one of the city's three universities. In Italian, Sapienza means 'wisdom'.

Famous scholars from La Sapienza

• Diego Laynez, second general of the Society of Jesus;
• Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina, jurisconsult;
• Carlo Innocenzio Maria Frugoni, poet
• Giovanni Battista Beccaria, physicist
• Benedetto Castelli mathematician
• Vito Volterra, mathematician
• Count Angelo de Gubernatis, orientalist
• Luigi Ferri, philosopher
• Umberto Cassuto, Hebrew language and Bible scholar
• Federigo Enriques, mathematician
• Via Panisperna boys, physicists:
• Enrico Fermi, Nobel Prize winner;
• Edoardo Amaldi
• Oscar D'Agostino
• Ettore Majorana
• Bruno Pontecorvo
• Franco Rasetti
• Emilio G. Segrè, Nobel prize winner
• Lucio Bini and Ugo Cerletti, psychiatrists
• Giuseppe Tucci, orientalist
• Giovanni Ciccotti, physicist;
• Daniel Bovet, pharmacologist, Nobel prize winner
• Paolo Matthiae, director of the archeological expedition of Ebla
• Giovanni Amelino-Camelia, astrophysicist
• Giuliano Amato, law professor and twice Prime Minister of Italy