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               Modena rientrava fra quelle di “tipo B”, l’equivalente delle università mi-  to the University, even though it came in to life again the old division
               nori. La legge consentì all’Università di gestire in proprio il patrimonio   of the University of the Kingdom in main and minor. Modena was
               mediante un Consiglio di amministrazione, permise di determinare il         included in the “B kind”, the equivalent of minor universities. The law
               piano degli studi e, agli studenti, di formulare il proprio curriculum acca-  permitted to the University to manage by itself the patrimony through
               demico, ripartendo gli insegnamenti in fondamentali e complementari.        a directorate. The law permitted also to decide the study plan, and to
               Nel 1926 fu rinnovato il Diploma di Laurea, mentre nel 1927, venne          the students to formulate the own academic curriculum, dividing the
               concesso l’uso di un nuovo sigillo, che nelle intenzioni del Ministero      teachings in fundamental and complementary.
               doveva rappresentare uno stemma araldico che racchiudesse la storia dei     In 1926, the Degree was renewed, while in 1927 the use of a new seal
               singoli atenei. Modena si ispirò al sigillo dello Studio Pubblico secente-  was allowed, that in the Minister’s intentions should represent a coat
               sco, l’antico Sigillum magnum della comunità modenese.                      of arms which included the history of the single Universities. Modena
               In quegli anni furono ripristinati l’emblema della Facoltà di Giuri-        took inspiration from the seal of the seventeenth-century public Studi-
               sprudenza, le insegne accademiche, la collana aurea del Rettore quale       um, the ancient Sigillum magnum of the Modena community.
               blasone della carica e la cappella universitaria, consacrata nel 1928 e     In that years there were the restorations of the emblem of the Juris-
               dedicata nel 1948 al beato Contardo Ferrini, docente presso l’Ate-          prudence Faculty, the academic colours, the golden necklace of the
               neo modenese a fine Ottocento. Il riordinamento dell’atrio principale       Rector as blazon of the charge and the University chapel, that was
                                                                                           consecrated in 1928 and dedicated in 1948 to the blessed Contardo
                                                                                           Ferrini, professor in the University of Modena at the end of nineteenth
                                                                                           century. The reorder of the principal entry of the University, with the
                                                                                           supplement of new seats and plaques of Giambattista Venturi, Antonio
                                                                                           Scarpa, Bernardino Ramazzini, Giambattista Amici, Lazzaro Spallanza-
                                                                                           ni, Francesco Torti, Contardo Ferrini, Paolo Ruffini, Giuseppe Triani,
                                                                                           Paolo Ferrari, Francesco Anselmi and Bartolomeo Valdrighi  gave to
                                                                                           the University a sort of Pantheon and of collection of memories of
                                                                                           those who had honoured its history.
                                                                                           The autonomy risked to enter in conflict with the nature and the ide-
                                                                                           ology of the regime and lasted for a short time: in 1935, it was newly
                                                                                           suppressed the distinction between main and minor universities and the
                                                                                           expenses for the Universities, originally under the Consortia charge, were
                                                                                           centralized by the State, which saw to redistribute them. Three years later,
                                                                                           the racial laws caused the exclusion of Jewish students and professors: to-










                                                                                                                  Il Sigillum Universitatis Mutinae, Palazzo Universitario, Modena
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