Da un palazzo a una città. La vera storia della moderna Università di Bologna

In the ancient strada di San Donato, the current via Zamboni ¬ a then decentralized area of the city ¬ at the beginning of the eighteenth century the city Council decided to buy the building that two centuries earlier had been built by the noble Poggi family. Here the scientific laboratories of the Institute of Sciences and the offices of the Academy found their location. Not many years later the Astronomical Observatory (the Specola) and the Library of the Institute of Sciences, which would later be called University Library, were built. The scientific and cultural centre that had been established in the Napoleonic era became the seat of the modern university which had been transferred from the Archiginnasio to Palazzo Poggi at the beginning of the 19^th century.