Sapienza University of Rome, officially the Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, is a public research university in Rome, Italy, and with over 110,000 students it is described as the largest university in Europe. Pope Boniface VIII founded it on 20 April 1303 by decree as a Studium for ecclesiastical studies, and in 1431 Pope Eugene IV reorganised it to include schools of Law, Medicine, Philosophy and Theology. It became known as Sapienza, meaning wisdom or knowledge, in the 1650s, and its Città Universitaria campus, planned by Marcello Piacentini, was completed in 1935. It holds 50 libraries, 19 museums, a botanical garden and three university hospitals.
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is a public research university located in Rome, Italy
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is a public research university located in Rome, Italy
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is a public research university located in Rome, Italy
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decreed that the university should expand to include the four schools of Law, Medicine, Philosophy, in addition to the existing Theology
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