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STUDIUM GENERALIS IN ORVIETO

https://doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518

Abstract

Orvieto was the seat of the Studium Generalis in the Middle Ages. The foundation dates back to the thirteenth century (perhaps to the twelfth), in the same period in which those of Bologna, Paris, Florence, Siena, Arezzo, Padua flourished. Orvieto has been a bishopric since at least the 6th century and hosts the pope and his court on several occasions. Hundreds and hundreds of people, cardinals with their respective families, the Curia studium, elevate and make the cultural, social and economic life of the city flourish in full evolution and urban transformation, cultural production and artistic patronage.