Question

A saint named for this city wrote an autobiographical treatise about her life in Ferrara in The Seven Spiritual Weapons. A jurist from this city allegedly taught law from behind a curtain (15[1])so that her students would not be distracted by her beauty. Ge’ez, (-5[1])Gujarati, and Algonquin were supposedly spoken fluently by a polyglot cardinal from this city. This city may have been the first in the world to abolish slavery through its Liber Paradisus. The rivals (15[1])Bulgarus and Martinus Gosia belonged to a group from this city (15[1])that studied under (*) Irnerius. The (10[1])“Four Doctors” of this (10[1])city offered (10[1])differing interpretations of the Corpus Juris Civilis. (10[1]-5[1])An institution (-5[1])in this city (10[1])included (10[1])Laura Bassi (10[1])and Dante among its students. (-5[1])For 10 points, (10[1])named this (-5[1])Italian city home to the oldest (10[1])continuously-operating (10[1])university (10[1])in the world. (10[1])■END■ (10[2]0[2])

ANSWER: Bologna [accept the University of Bologna; accept the “Four Doctors of Bologna”; accept Catherine of Bologna]
<History - European History>
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