Bologna

Italy

Bologna, the Roman Bononia, is the capital of the Emilia-Romagna region in north-central Italy. Its university, traditionally dated to 1088, is often called the oldest in continuous operation; Nicolaus Copernicus studied there, and later members of its faculty included Ulisse Aldrovandi, Bonaventura Cavalieri and Maria Gaetana Agnesi. The city was under papal rule for most of the period from 1506 until 1860, when it joined the Kingdom of Italy. Its religious history includes the Dominican friary of San Domenico, which Girolamo Savonarola entered in 1475, and a medieval and Renaissance Jewish community that was an early centre of Hebrew printing; the Torah commentator Ovadiah Sforno founded a yeshiva in Bologna and died there around 1550.

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