
University of Padua.
The University of Padua was founded in 1222 by students and masters who left Bologna in search of greater academic freedom, a founding act still echoed in its motto Universa universis patavina libertas. It is the second-oldest university in Italy and among the oldest surviving anywhere, and it shaped early modern European science: Galileo Galilei taught here, Andreas Vesalius transformed anatomy here, and the world's oldest surviving anatomical theatre, built in 1594, remains inside Palazzo Bo. Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia graduated at Padua in 1678, the first woman in the world to take a u
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