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  The Galileo Project | Galileo | Education | Collegio Romano
At the apex of all Jesuit seminaries stood the Collegio Romano, founded by Ignatius in 1551.
By 1567 the Collegio Romano had over a thousand students, and Pope Gregory XIII (see Gregorian Calendar) erected a large building to house the students and faculty.
The Collegio Romano attracted the best scientists in the Society, and Jesuit educators as far away as China turned to them for their judgment on scientific matters.
galileo.rice.edu /gal/romano.html   (646 words)

  
  The Catholic Encyclopedia - Roman Colleges   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Collegio Cerasoli with four burses for students of the Diocese of Bergamo endowed by Cardinal Cerasoli, is connected with the seminary.
He transferred the secular department to the Seminario Romano, and endowed the college with the Abbey of S. Saba all' Aventino and all its possessions, both on the Via Portuense and on the Lake of Bracciano; moreover he incorporated with it the Abbeys of Fonte Avellana in the Marches, S. Cristina, and Lodiveccio in Lombardy.
In 1873 when the Collegio Romano was taken away from the Jesuits, the Collegio Germanico found a home in the Gregorian University.
www.jcsm.org /StudyCenter/Catholic_Encyclopedia/13131a.htm   (5738 words)

  
 Christopher Clavius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Following this he went to Italy and studied theology at the Jesuit Collegio Romano in Rome.
In fact, except for a period in Naples around 1596 and a visit to Spain in 1597, Clavius was to remain Professor of Mathematics at the Collegio Romano for the rest of his life.
In 1579 he was assigned to compute the basis for a reformed calendar that would stop the slow process in which the Church's holidays were drifting relative to the seasons of the year.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christopher_Clavius   (688 words)

  
 CEDANT: Second 'Collegio di Diritto Romano'
The Second "Collegio" was held in Pavia, at the Almo Collegio Borromeo, from 12 to 30 January 2004.
The Proceedings of the Collegio are due to appear in early 2005, and they will contain both the seminar papers given by the teachers and the outcome of the young scholars' research, which will be discussed during a special session of the Collegio in September.
Therefore, the Collegio was conveniently opened by three inaugural addresses, by Dario Mantovani, Emilio Gabba and Luigi Capogrossi Colognesi, whose main aim was to put the current debate on the municipal laws into the broader context of scholarship, as it developed since the nineteenth century.
iuscivile.com /information/CEDANT/2004.shtml   (3996 words)

  
 The Galileo Project | Galileo | Education | Collegio Romano
At the apex of all Jesuit seminaries stood the Collegio Romano, founded by Ignatius in 1551.
By 1567 the Collegio Romano had over a thousand students, and Pope Gregory XIII (see Gregorian Calendar) erected a large building to house the students and faculty.
The Collegio Romano attracted the best scientists in the Society, and Jesuit educators as far away as China turned to them for their judgment on scientific matters.
es.rice.edu /newgalileo/gal/romano.html   (638 words)

  
 Chapter3 - Climate - Rome
A study developed for the year 1991 by the Central Office of Agriecology (Ufficio Centrale di Ecologia Agraria, which manages the station of Collegio Romano) established a correlation between weather conditions and degree of concentration of pollution factors.
Meteorological data, collected by the Collegio Romano station and mainly elaborated as mean monthly values, for the period from 1782 to 1978, are published in Meteorologia Romana, la Serie Storica delle Osservazioni al Collegio Romano, edited by V. Trevisan, 1980.
Using weather reports and predictions made from meteorological data to manage the interventions to control and lower the air pollution is the most important application of such data for the institutional powers concerning the City of Rome.
www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de /archiv_sensut/umwelt/uisonline/envibase/handbook/climate5.htm   (1013 words)

  
 Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich
His unusual talents manifested themselves particularly during the years devoted to literary and philosophical studies at the Collegio Romano, the most celebrated of the colleges of the Society of Jesus.
To him was due the project of the Observatory of the Collegio Romano, which afterwards became so well known.
His illustrious successor at the Observatory of the Collegio romano, Father Angelo Secchi, in his "Unita delle forze fisiche" has in many respects followed in his footsteps, and in fact the cosmological views held by many later natural philosophers furnish unequivocal proof of the influence of the theories maintained by Boscovich.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/b/boscovich,ruggiero_giuseppe.html   (2307 words)

  
 Documenting Public Mathematics in the Collegio Romano:
Collegio Romano, 23 December 1591, APUG Fondo Curia 2052 VIII, ff.
Datis lateribus Aream trianguli inquirere, recited in the Collegio Romano by Benedictus Ceronius, 1 March 1594, APUG Fondo Curia 2052 VIII 17v-21r.
Problema de Stellis novis in quo impressiones aereae ab aethereis discernuntur, recited in the Collegio Romano, 23 December 1604  BNR Fondo Gesuitico 1186, ff.
shl.stanford.edu:16080 /Eyes/modesty/documents.htm   (492 words)

  
 The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of September 24, 1759   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Collegio Romano, Rome (doctorates in philosophy and theology, January 13, 1716); University of Macerata, Macerata (dooctore utroque iure, both canon and civil law, October 27, 1716).
Collegio San Carlo, Modena, 1719; University of Pisa, Pisa (doctorate in law and mathematics); entered the ecclesiastical state in 1730 and went to Rome to study theology.
Prefect of the Economy of Collegio Romano and of the Roman Seminary.
www.stjohnxxiii.com /Cardinals/The_Cardinals_of_the_Church/bios1759.htm   (3060 words)

  
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FROM THE COLLEGIO ROMANO TO THE VILLA MONDRAGONE
Indeed, if manuscripts have been transferred from the Collegio Romano to the villa Mondragone, it was after the year 1865, when the villa begins to be used as a Jesuit college.
The Nobile Collegio Mondragone is the probable one, compatible with Voynich's statement on his purchase and with Father Strickland's role in it.
www.geocities.com /voyms/CRtoVM.htm   (6042 words)

  
 Lake County Astronomical Society NightTimes
After finishing his humanistic and philosophical studies in 1839 at the Roman College, his aptitude in the natural sciences led him to be appointed tutor of mathematics and physics at the Jesuits' Collegio Romano.
In 1849 he was appointed director of Gregorian University in Rome and in 1852 founded a new observatory at the Collegio Romano.
In 1859, after years of strenuous labor he published the chief portion of his results in the "Memorie Del Collegio Romano" that listed 10,000 verified double stars, to be continued in two supplements by his assistant in 1868 and 1875.
www.bpccs.com /lcas/Articles/secchi.htm   (540 words)

  
 Carsughi, Ranieri: Ars Bene Scribendi / Studiosis Rhetoricae / Adolescentibus / Proposita olim in Collegio Romano / ... ...
Carsughi, Ranieri: Ars Bene Scribendi / Studiosis Rhetoricae / Adolescentibus / Proposita olim in Collegio Romano /...
Ars Bene Scribendi / Studiosis Rhetoricae / Adolescentibus / Proposita olim in Collegio Romano /...
- In funere Andreae Abbatis Bernardi Theologiae studiosi in Seminario Romano.
www.uni-mannheim.de /mateo/desbillons/rainer.html   (1930 words)

  
 A Jacobite Gazetteer - Rome - Collegio Romano - Residenza Gesuitica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
A Jacobite Gazetteer - Rome - Collegio Romano - Residenza Gesuitica
The Collegio Romano is the former Jesuit college in Rome.
One writer suggests that James paid for the decoration of the room, but I think that this is based upon a mistranslation of the inscription.
www.jacobite.ca /gazetteer/Rome/CollegioRomano.htm   (286 words)

  
 Science Teaching in Early Modern Europe
Retreating from the noisy classroom, this paper will attempt to explore the private spaces of mathematical learning in the Collegio Romano, and their interactions with the public life of the college.
1564-1636), successor to Clavius as professor of mathematics at the Collegio Romano.
The cubiculum of the senior mathematician in the Collegio Romano, containing mathematical instruments, manuscripts and also the site of "private lessons" in mathematics was one of the only rooms in a Jesuit college to have a door with a key.
galileo.imss.firenze.it /sci_teaching/abs_gorman.html   (194 words)

  
 Voynich MS - Long tour - Known history of the manuscript
Collegio Romano with the S. Ignazio, the Oratorio del Caravita, the museums, the library and the 'vecchia specola' (Astronomical Observatory) are returned to the Jesuits.
This was facilitated by the absence of detailed catalogues of the The main Jesuit library of the Collegio Romano (Bibliotheca Major), so that valuable documents of it could be salvaged by this ruse (27).
One student at the Collegio Romano is Henri Hyvernat who later shows an interest in the Voynich MS and obtains a copy from Mrs.
www.voynich.nu /history.html   (4969 words)

  
 Untitled Document
In other respects, it's obvious that MS 408 origin (Collegio Romano) is publicly known since October 1937, 23 years before the Ethel's letter, opened at her death.
From his independent source, Ruysschaert knows that a version of De re militari was owned by Collegio Romano, but, on the basis of De Ricci, he is unable to identify which one between MS 13 and 14 of the Voynich estate.
Manuscripts purchased by Voynich to the Collegio Romano
www.geocities.com /voyms/Ruysschaert.htm   (2316 words)

  
 Christoph Clavius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Clavius was one of the major architect of the Gregorian calendar reform of 1582, and remained professor of mathematics at the Jesuit's Collegio Romano until his death on February 6 1612.
In 1570 Clavius wrote what was to become one of the most influential textbook on astronomy of its days, in the form of a commentary on the so-called Spheres of Sacrobosco.
Clavius was chief astronomer at the Jesuit's Collegio Romano at the time of Galileo's first telescopic discoveries, and was still quite active despite his advancing age.
www.hao.ucar.edu /Public/education/bios/clavius.html   (253 words)

  
 ATHANASIUS KIRCHER - LoveToKnow Article on ATHANASIUS KIRCHER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
He became professor of philosophy, mathematics, and Oriental languages at Wurzburg, whence he was driven (1631) by the troubles of the Thirty Years War to Avignon.
Through the influence of Cardinal Barberini he next (I635) settled in Rome, where for eight years he taught mathematics in the Collegio Romano, but ultimately resigned this appointment to study hieroglyphics and other archaeological subjects.
The valuable collection of antiquities which he bequeathed to the Collegio Romano has been described by Buonanni (Musaeum Kircherianum, 1709; republished by Battara in 1773).
www.1911encyclopedia.org /K/KI/KIRCHER_ATHANASIUS.htm   (224 words)

  
 History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Pontifical Gregorian University's Library was founded by St, Ignatius of Loyola in 1551, together with the Collegio Romano.
Later, in 1585, it was transferred to the Piazza del Collegio Romano, to a building that Gregory XIII ordered constructed from Bartolomeo Ammannati for the purpose.
After its confiscation by the state in 1872, the Library's 45,000 volumes, manuscripts, and archives were dispersed and partially expropriated by the Vittorio Emanuele II National Library of Rome.
biblio.unigre.it /history.htm   (149 words)

  
 The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of October 2, 1826
Collegio Romano, Rome (doctorate in theology, September 9, 1780).
Collegio Urbano, Rome; La Sapienza University, Rome (doctorate in utroque iuris, both civil and canon law, December 20, 1792).
Collegio Romano, Rome (philosophy; utroque iuris, both civil and canon law); La Sapienza University, Rome, ca.
www.fiu.edu /~mirandas/bios1826-ii.htm   (2921 words)

  
 Science Teaching in Early Modern Europe
Casati, a Jesuit mathematician well known for his mission to Queen Christina from Sweden that culminated in her conversion to Catholicism, had taught at the Collegio Romano just a few yeas after Mersenne’s visit.
The letter mentions a real disputation actually led at the Collegio Romano under the auspices of Prince Cardinal Hassia Lantgravius and Antonio Monforte (a well known patron), during the time Casati taught there.
This archeology, touching upon the circumstances of its composition immediately point to the kind of audiences to which the text was addressed.
galileo.imss.firenze.it /sci_teaching/abs_feldhay.html   (1045 words)

  
 Angelo Secchi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
He joined the Jesuit at age 15, began his theological studies in 1844, and was ordained priest in 1847.
In 1839 he began lecturing on physics and mathematics at the Jesuits' Collegio Romano.
He was back in Europe within a year, and in 1852 returned to Rome, founding a new observatory at the Collegio Romano.
www.hao.ucar.edu /Public/education/bios/secchi.html   (362 words)

  
 Robert Cardinal Bellarmine
In 1560, he joined the Jesuit order and began his studies at the Collegio Romano, the Jesuit college in Rome.
After finishing his course of studies there and studying Thomistic theology at the university of Padua, Bellarmine became the first Jesuit professor at the university of Louvain (in modern Belgium) in 1569 and was ordained as a priest the following year.
Bellarmine served as rector of the Collegio Romano in 1592, as provincial of the Neapolitan province of the Jesuits in 1594, and papal theologian in 1597.
www.spaceship-earth.org /Biograph/bellarmin.html   (741 words)

  
 Secchi, Pietro Angelo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Secchi was born in Reggio nell'Emilia and became a Jesuit priest, lecturing in physics and mathematics at the Collegio Romano from 1839.
He returned to Italy 1849 as director of the observatory at the Collegio Romano and professor of astronomy.
With English astronomer William Huggins, Secchi was the first person to adapt spectroscopy to astronomy in a systematic manner and he made the first spectroscopic survey of the heavens.
www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/S/Secchi/1.html   (178 words)

  
 Palazzo Doria Pamphili E110b   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
This is one of the largest patrician complexes in Rome; it is compound of single palaces built in different periods of time on the territory between Via del Corso, Via del Plebescito, Via della Gatta and Piazza del Collegio Romano.
The facade by G.Valvassori (1731-1734) is perhaps the finest and most balanced Rococo work in Rome; the ample 16th century courtyard was built under the Della Rovere.
The facade at Piazza del Collegio Romano is by A.Del Grande (1660).
www.italycyberguide.com /Geography/cities/rome2000/E110b.htm   (668 words)

  
 H-Net Review: Eugenio Menegon on Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
A colorful episode regarding the library of the Collegio Romano shows how the Jesuits tried with all their forces to resist the confiscation of their materials by the Italian state.
The Archives of the Jesuit General Procurators, kept in the Collegio Romano after the restoration of the Society, however, were confiscated by the Italian government in 1870 following the incorporation of Rome into the Kingdom of Italy.
The Library of the Collegio Romano apparently remained intact between the suppression of the Society and its resurrection in 1814.
www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=294851047523464   (2521 words)

  
 EIPS - A Tale of Jesuit Cloak and Dagger Intrigue in Counter Reformation Rome A Tale of Jesuit Cloak and Dagger ...
It was that of an ambitious, young, rising star in the top Jesuit College in Rome, The Collegio Romano, Fr Orazio Grassi.
But most atmospheric of all is the narrow way known as the Via St Ignazio, named after Loyola the founder of the Jesuits, which separates the Jesuit block and the Collegio Romano from their rivals in the Dominican block which includes Santa Maria Sopra Minerva and the convent where Galileo was tried by the Inquisition.
He is determined not to be the one to bring ridicule on his society and cause “denigration of the Collegio Romano”.
www.ianpaisley.org /article.asp?ArtKey=tale   (2039 words)

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