University of Florence

The University of Florence, abbreviated UNIFI, is an Italian public research university located in Florence, Italy. It comprises 12 schools, among them agriculture, architecture, economics, engineering, law, medicine and surgery, and political science, and has around 50,000 students enrolled. The university dates from 1859, when a group of separate higher-studies institutions were joined as the Istituto di Studi Superiori Pratici e di Perfezionamento, which was recognised as a full university a year later and renamed a University by the Italian Parliament in 1923. An earlier institution, the Studio Fiorentino, had been established by the Florentine Republic in 1321 and recognised by Pope Clement VI in 1349, but it was repeatedly moved to Pisa and back under the Medici.