Marsilius of Padua (trans. Annabel Brett), The Defender of the Peace (Cambridge University Press, 2005) Gerson Moreño-Riano (ed.), The World of Marsilius of Padua (Brepols, 2006) ...

Seven hundred years ago, Italian scholar Marsilius of Padua helped lay the foundation for our modern ideas of popular sovereignty. In his book, "Defensor Pacis," written in the context of an ...

The Anelli estate in Padua is a cluster of crumbling high-rise flats. It was built in the 1980s to house the city's considerable student population. These days it is home to several hundred African ...

Established in 1222, the University of Padua (Padova in Italian) is the second oldest university in Italy, after Bologna, and one of the earliest universities in the world. It was originally founded ...

Gladden Pappin’s last task, before he headed off to an election night party on November 3, was to teach an undergraduate class on Marsilius of Padua, a fourteenth-century Italian critic of the ...

Yet we're here in Padua to honour Galileo Galilei, the one man, above even Copernicus, who proved Earth revolves around the sun, rather than vice versa. Not only is the Earth revolving, but so are we.

Now the University and citizens of Padua desire to celebrate the tercentenary of the day on which he delivered his first lecture. Nature - Galileo Galilei and the Approaching Celebration at Padua.