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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 (15[1])so that her students would not be distracted by her beauty. Ge’ez, 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 that studied under (*) Irnerius. The “Four Doctors” of this city offered differing interpretations of the Corpus Juris Civilis. (-5[1])An institution in this city included Laura Bassi (10[1])and Dante among its students. For 10 points, named this Italian city home to the oldest continuously-operating university (10[1])in the world. ■END■ (0[1])

ANSWER: Bologna [accept the University of Bologna; accept the “Four Doctors of Bologna”; accept Catherine of Bologna]
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Adil HaiderThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork OrangeShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere3115
Sky LiSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donutas rational as the square root of two power bottoms105-5
Henry AtkinsCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole countryI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up 11310
Jack van NostrandRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan QuizbowlersModerator Can't Neg me While in Alpha13110
Elijah Mandelbaumas rational as the square root of two power bottomsSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut1350

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