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Culture and innovation: Italian Prime
Minister's visit to the U.S. started in
San Francisco
University of Bologna: the world's
oldest university still one of its best
GIuLIA LOuIsE sTEIGERwALT
The first official visit of the
Italian Prime Minister Matteo
Renzi to the U.S. started from
For the last decade, the QS
Global Academy Advisory
Board, through its QS World
University Rankings, has helped
millions of ambitious students
choose the best university to
become what they want and
develop their future careers.
The QS rankings focus on
academic reputation, employer
opinion, international staff and
student attraction, as well as
other measures of broad universi-
ty performance.
3000 universities are consid-
ered of which only 800 get to be
part of the ranking. These are
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The University of Bologna is the oldest continuously active university in
Europe, founded in 1088, and still one of the best in the world
the city of San Francisco,
California.
It was the first visit paid by
an Italian Premier to the Golden
State since 1982, and the first
ever to the Silicon Valley, where
Matteo Renzi came searching for
innovative ideas and possible
investments.
Welcomed by Italian
Ambassador Claudio Bisogniero
ROBERTO NATALINI
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BARBARA MINAFRA
Torino 1864. Sono passati
appena tre anni dall'Unità
d'Italia. Sui libri di storia si
legge che proprio allora la capi-
tale del nuovo Stato, nato con
fatica dalle battaglie risorgi-
mentali, diventa Firenze. Una
tappa intermedia prima del
trasferimento definitivo a Roma
nel 1871, secondo quanto pre-
visto nel 1861 con la procla-
mazione del Regno d'Italia.
Ma sono passati anche 150
anni da un momento turbolento
di cui non si conserva memoria.
A Torino scoppiano violenti
tumulti: si protesta contro il
trasferimento della capitale a
Firenze. Per la città significava,
come poco prima era avvenuto
per Napoli, cuore pulsante del
Regno borbonico, perdere i
ministeri, le ambasciate, la
corte, le mondanità, i privilegi
Da Torino a
Firenze: 150 anni
fa si spostava la
capitale italiana
