University of Florence

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The University of Florence (

The University hosts one of the leading Italian law schools, repeatedly recognised as a national "Department of Excellence" by the Italian Ministry of Education, University, and Research.^[3] Alumni and faculty members of the University of Florence School of Law have held leading positions in government. They include Presidents of the Italian Constitutional Court Silvana Sciarra, Paolo Grossi, Ugo de Siervo,^[4] and Enzo Cheli,^[5] President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Jugoslavia and Special Tribunal for Lebanon Antonio Cassese, Judge of the International Court of Justice Giorgio Gaja, Judge of the Court of Justice of the European Union Roberto Mastroianni,^[6] former Prime Ministers of the Italian Republic Matteo Renzi and Giuseppe Conte, and members of the Constituent Assembly Piero Calamandrei and Giorgio La Pira.

Notable people

Alumni

Notable alumni of the University of Florence include:

• Italian journalists Indro Montanelli, Oriana Fallaci, Nadia Toffa
• Former Governor General of Canada and current Secretary-General of La Francophonie Michaëlle Jean^[7]
• Pope
  Pius II^[8]
• Italian Prime Ministers Giovanni Spadolini, Lamberto Dini^[9] and Matteo Renzi^[10][11]
• Italian political leaders Giorgio La Pira^[12][13]
• Architect Pier Carlo Bontempi^[14][15]
• President of the European Parliament, David Sassoli.
• Architect Hamid Gabbay^[16]
• Astrophysicist Margherita Hack^[17][18]
• Immunologist Paola Ricciardi-Castagnoli^[19][20]
• Philosopher Giacomo Marramao^[21][22]
• United Nations official Annalisa Ciampi^[23]
• Poets Margherita Guidacci^[24][25] and Mario Luzi^[26][27]
• Doctor
  Francesco Antommarchi, personal doctor of Napoleon^[28]
• Judge
  Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf of the International Court of Justice^[29][30]
• Philosopher Giovanni Gentile^[31]
• Indian Luge Player Shiva Keshavan^[32]
• Francesco Milleri, CEO of Luxottica^[33]
• Giulio Racah, Acting President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Mirella Levi D'Ancona, art historian^[34]
• Egisto Nino Ceccatelli, photographer^[35]

Faculty

• John Argyropoulos taught Greek from 1456.
• Raphael Badius, dean in 1681
• Carlo Emilio Bonferroni, statistician^[36][37]
• Giovanni Boccaccio, poet, professor of Ancient Greek and Literature^[38]
• Piero Calamandrei, jurist, professor in the faculty of law, born in 1889.
• Antonio Cassese, international jurist, president of several international tribunals^[39][40]
• Mario Draghi, prime minister of Italy from 2021, President of ECB, full professor of Monetary Economics and Monetary Policy in the faculty of Political Science from 1981 to 1991.^[41]
• Nobel prize, professor of Mathematical Physics^[42][43]
• Giorgio Gaja, international jurist, former member of the International Law Commission and judge of the International Court of Justice
• Paolo Grossi, judge of the Constitutional Court of Italy
• Mario Luzi, poet, professor of French language and Literature
• Giovanni Sartori, political scientist, professor of Political Science, born in 1924 in Florence.
• Giovanni Spadolini, historian and important Italian politician, professor of Contemporary History, born in 1925 in Florence.
• Leonardo da Vinci carried out studies on anatomy at the Santa Maria Nuova Hospital in the center of town which is today a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Florence.
• Giuseppe Conte, prime minister of Italy from 2018 to 2021, teaches private law

Points of interest

• Museo Galileo
• Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze
• Orto Botanico di Firenze

See also

• List of forestry universities and colleges
• List of Italian universities
• List of medieval universities

References