books.google.fr - Italian Renaissance universities were Europe's intellectual leaders in humanistic studies, law, medicine, philosophy, and science. Employing some of the foremost scholars of the time—including Pietro Pomponazzi, Andreas Vesalius, and Galileo Galilei—the Italian Renaissance university was the prototype...http://books.google.fr/books/about/The_Universities_of_the_Italian_Renaissa.html?hl=fr&id=5hTHP2I-A14C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Universities of the Italian Renaissance