The Financing of the University of Rome (15th-16th centuries)

Abstract

In recent years there is a growing interest in historiography by the uni­versities that developed in territories of the Roman Church at the end of the Middle Ages. Although we can affirm that universities that develope in this area during the modern age are “Pope’s universities”, this was not the case in the Middle Ages. The works on the Uni­versity of Perugia, also on the University of Rome, reveal the dualism between city and curia, between academic work and papal tu­telage, between municipal management, city life and the presence of the Church. And if we focus on the financing of the University of Rome, questions also arise related to the role of municipal governments in determining the financial policies of the university. This article will address the financing of the Studium Ur­bis by public authorities to observe its man­agement capacity in the specific and spatial coordinates of the University of Rome.