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

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