Particolare Collegio Ferdinando (L. Corevi, Comune di Pisa)The college is part of a renewal program of the University of Pisa, the main study centre of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.Ferdinand Iwanted to open its doors to all deserving students, even those who did not have the opportunity to pay for their studies. His father, Cosimo I, had already intervened in this sense, opening the Sapienza College in the convent of San Francesco. So, in 1593, the Ferdinand College was inaugurated at no. 102 of via Santa Maria. The great portalinmarble and the bust of the Grand Duke are works by RaffaelePagni. The students had strict rules to follow, the purpose, for which the College was erected, being the acquiring of Piety, good morals, and sciences [...] by the orders established by the Founders [...] They are always obliged to attend the Schools morning and evening, and those who will not attend the public lectures morning and evening in Sapienza, every time they will be in contravention, will be deprived of the College for the time decided by the Rector. Those who attend the lessons but disrupt them with clamouring, hitting, hissing or in any other way, after being warned, will be punished not only with the deprivation of the College for a year, but also, being such rascals, the exile from Pisa.
