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University of Turin

1404 · 15th century

The University of Turin is one of the oldest universities in Italy, founded in 1404 under Prince Louis of Savoy-Achaea with papal approval. It moved several times in its early centuries and was reorganised by Victor Amadeus II in the 1720s as a state university. Erasmus took his doctorate in theology there in 1506.

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