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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 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 Bulgarus and Martinus Gosia belonged to a group from this city (15[1])that studied under (*) Irnerius. The “Four Doctors” of this city offered (10[1])differing interpretations of the Corpus Juris Civilis. (10[1])An institution in this city (10[1])included Laura Bassi and Dante among its students. For 10 points, named this Italian city home to the oldest continuously-operating (10[1])university in the world. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Bologna [accept the University of Bologna; accept the “Four Doctors of Bologna”; accept Catherine of Bologna]
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