Ghislieri College

The Collegio Ghislieri is a student boarding school in Pavia, which was established shortly after the Collegio Borromeo, traditionally has a very good reputation and has a long history. The College is co-founder of the IUSS ( Istituto Universitario di Studi Superiori ) of Pavia.

It was founded in 1567 at the instigation of Pope Pius V, whose name was Antonio Michele Ghislieri, and was traditionally thought of for male students. In 1965, however, a tract for female students was established, which was named after Sandra Bruni.

The College is now under the auspices of the President of Italy and is recognized by the Ministry of Education, University and Research as an institution of high cultural capabilities. It takes students on the University of Pavia, who have distinguished themselves through outstanding achievements in a public, annual intake test.

The College has one of the largest private libraries in Northern Italy, which includes approximately 160,000 volumes covering every field of knowledge.

Furthermore, the Collegio Ghislieri operates exchange programs with the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, the Maximilianeum in Munich, the St John 's College, Cambridge, the St Hugh 's College, Oxford, the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, the University of Strasbourg, the University of Geneva, the University of Zurich and the University of Oregon in the United States.

Among the people who have lived in the College during its long history, the playwright Carlo Goldoni, the psychoanalyst John Cremerius, the statesman Giuseppe Zanardelli, founder of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan Agostino Gemelli, the historian Ugoberto Alfassio Grimaldi, who are lawyer Guido Rossi, who is mainly known as associate commissioner of the Italian Football Federation FIGC during the big football scandal in Italy from 2005/2006 and Virginio Rognoni, former Italian interior, Justice and Defence Minister and Vice President of the Consiglio Superiore della Magistratura (CSM ).